WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 22 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located at 8 W HURLEY RD, in WOODSTOCK, New York, WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary-level community that teaches 189 students (grades K through 4), part of ONTEORA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 57% smaller than the state mean of about 443.
WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by ONTEORA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 1,157 students overall.
Looking at the student body, WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). The remainder reads as 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Ulster County's rate of about 41%.
With demographic context factored in, WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of -12.0 points.
In the broader community, census data for Ulster County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,271 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Ulster County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students), of which WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 5%, going from 199 students in 2018 to 189 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 today.
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