Hendy Avenue School, Elmira NY - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Hendy Avenue School

Hendy Avenue School serves grades three through six in Elmira, a small city in the Southern Tier of New York. The school enrolls students across a modest range of backgrounds. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is predominantly white, with meaningful representation of Black students and students who identify as two or more races. The school serves a traditional elementary and early-middle grades function in a district that serves a city experiencing long, slow population decline, though recent downtown revitalization efforts and a voter-approved, multi-year capital improvement project aimed at upgrading every school building suggest intentional stabilization and reinvestment in the district's physical infrastructure.

Academic performance at Hendy Avenue reflects below-midpoint proficiency across the subjects and grades the state tests. In English language arts, third grade shows particularly low performance, while fifth and sixth grades score higher, with fifth grade performing in the middle range for the district's tested grades. Math proficiency is similarly uneven. Third grade in math registers very low achievement, while fourth and fifth grades are stronger, though still below proficiency benchmarks. Science proficiency in fifth grade is modest. These results suggest students are not meeting grade-level state standards in large numbers. The school's position on the overall proficiency index falls below the midpoint among districts in Chemung County, the wider comparison peer group. A parent may want to understand more directly from the school what intervention or support strategies are in place, particularly for third and fourth graders, where the performance gaps are widest, and what progress monitoring looks like year to year.

The school's demographic context includes a substantial population of students experiencing economic hardship. Just over a majority of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. This concentration correlates with known economic conditions in Elmira itself, where housing values are well below state and national averages, a high poverty rate is documented, and major employers cluster in health care, manufacturing, and retail. The city has lost population over decades and remains economically fragile, though the Downtown Revitalization Initiative and the capital project voted by the district suggest a community attempting to stabilize and rebuild.

For families considering this school, the key question is what instructional and support resources exist to move proficiency higher, particularly in the elementary grades. The school sits in a district where tax policy recently shifted from a multi-year levy freeze to modest annual increases, and a large, long-term capital investment has been approved. Housing in the school's zip code is significantly more affordable than state or national norms. The school is a regular public elementary campus in a district operating multiple dispersed school buildings rather than a concentrated downtown campus, and transportation is a practical matter for many families in the area.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 316%

School 16% · District 38% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 43 pts below state median · ▼ 35 pts below county median

Grade 432%

School 32% · District 29% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 532%

School 32% · District 20% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 625%

School 25% · District 25%

▼ 20 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 315%

School 15% · District 31% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 26 pts below county median

Grade 428%

School 28% · District 26% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 26% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▼ 13 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 637%

School 37% · District 25% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▼ 9 pts below state median

Science

Grade 534%

School 34% · District 23% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▼ 8 pts below state median

Social studies

Grade 593%

School 93% · district not reported

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

This schoolELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income14%Higher-income17%2 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income19%Higher-income50%32 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income27%Higher-income62%35 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income25%Higher-income64%39 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income13%Higher-income23%10 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income20%Higher-income62%42 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income13%Higher-income59%46 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income17%Higher-income46%29 pp gap