The top reported proficiency rate is 60% in Math. The lowest is 54% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Byron-bergen Elementary School
Byron-Bergen Elementary School serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade on a shared campus with the district's junior-senior high school, located on West Bergen Road outside the village of Bergen in rural Genesee County. The school is part of the Byron-Bergen Central School District, which spans a large agricultural area covering the towns of Bergen and Byron.
Bergen itself is a small rural village with a compact historic downtown along Lake Avenue. Publicly reported descriptions note Victorian homes, tree-canopied sidewalks, and a walkable village core organized around its Lake Street Historic District, a cluster of intact Romanesque Revival commercial buildings. The broader community reads as home-owning and relatively quiet, with the village center a few miles from the school campus rather than adjacent to it. The dominant local employer is Liberty Pumps, a pump manufacturer headquartered in the Apple Tree Acres business park on the edge of town, which has expanded several times in recent years and is by publicly reported accounts a homegrown anchor for local employment. Growth in the area is industrial rather than residential; no major new housing subdivisions appear in the available information, though the village has been working to revitalize its downtown including the renovation of the historic Tulley Building.
On the state assessment, the school's math proficiency across its tested grades runs in the upper fifties to low sixties, which places the school's overall proficiency index in the top quartile relative to districts in Genesee County. ELA proficiency across those same grades runs in the low-to-mid fifties, climbing somewhat by fifth grade. Science proficiency at fifth grade sits in the mid-fifties. The pattern is fairly consistent across grades: math runs a few points ahead of ELA in each year tested, with no dramatic gaps or swings. These results represent a modestly solid academic position within the county peer set, though families who want to understand how these numbers compare to statewide performance should look further. Multi-year trend data was not available in the data provided, so it is not possible to characterize whether results are improving, declining, or stable.
About half the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a meaningful indicator of economic diversity in the community. The school is predominantly white, with a modest Hispanic share and small numbers of students identifying as two or more races. Data on students with IEPs and English learners was not reported in the available records, so parents who want to understand special education services or English language support should ask the school directly.
Two pieces of district context stand out for incoming families. First, the district recently completed a voter-approved capital project that updated both school buildings, the natatorium, and the bus garage, funded in a structure described as tax-neutral. The elementary building had not seen major renovations for many decades, and the project addressed classroom standards and ADA access. Second, the district added more than 75 students during the 2024-25 school year, reversing what had been a declining enrollment trend. The district publicly reported that it responded by adding staff using an increase in state Foundation Aid and added a second School Resource Officer so each building has one. Families considering enrollment during this period of growth may want to ask how staffing levels and classroom sizes have settled following that influx.
Housing in the area runs well below New York State benchmarks, and also below national medians, making this a considerably more accessible market than much of the state. Year-over-year appreciation has been running at a moderate pace. Rental data for the immediate zip code was not available in the data provided.
Program details, course access, attendance, and discipline data were not included in the available information, so this narrative cannot speak to extracurricular offerings, specialist programs, or school climate indicators at the elementary level. A visit or call to the school would fill those gaps.
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