The top reported proficiency rate is 100% in Science. The lowest is 56% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Woodstock Elementary School
Woodstock Elementary School is a small public school on West Hurley Road serving kindergarten through third grade, part of the Onteora Central School District. Its enrollment is modest for its grade band, and it draws from the town of Woodstock and nearby hamlets in the Ulster County foothills of the Catskills.
The most consequential thing a family should know before enrolling: this school is scheduled to close. Publicly reported accounts from late 2025 describe a district consolidation plan, approved by voters in December 2025, that will move all students to a single campus in Boiceville by September 2028. The middle and high school already sit there, along with Bennett Elementary. The closure of Woodstock Elementary ends the neighborhood-school arrangement that has defined the younger grades for families in town. For a child entering kindergarten now, the transition to Boiceville could arrive before they reach fourth grade. Parents weighing this school should factor the timeline into their planning and ask the district directly about how the transition will affect current students.
On academic performance, the school has state testing data for third and fourth grade in ELA and math through the New York State Testing Program. The picture is mixed. In ELA, fourth grade stands out: a strong majority of tested students scored at the proficient level, which is a genuinely good result. Third grade ELA and third grade math both landed with roughly half of students at proficiency, a middling outcome by New York standards. Fourth grade math was meaningfully stronger than third grade math but not as high as fourth grade ELA. Placed against districts in Ulster County, the school's combined proficiency index across tested subjects and grades lands in the top quartile of the comparison set, which is a clear strength relative to its neighbors. A parent should still look at the grade-level variation and ask the school what supports are in place for students not yet at proficiency, particularly in the earlier grades.
About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a meaningful share that reflects economic diversity in a town where housing costs have climbed sharply. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller Hispanic and multiracial populations. Data on English learners and students with individualized education programs was not available in the records reviewed.
The school sits in a town with a strong sense of identity rooted in its arts colony history, a walkable village center along Tinker Street, and a surrounding mix of forested hamlets. Woodstock itself has seen steep home price appreciation, and publicly reported coverage describes a housing affordability squeeze driven partly by short-term rentals. The local market sits well above both the state and national median home values, and the rent-to-income ratio reflects a notably stretched rental market. Families relocating into the Woodstock area should plan for a competitive and expensive housing market.
The district is also working through a curriculum transition toward a "Portrait of a Graduate" framework, publicly reported as a target for implementation by fall 2027, alongside continued Multi-Tiered Systems of Support across schools. These are district-level shifts that will affect instruction at Woodstock Elementary during whatever time it remains open.
A graduation rate does not apply here, as the school serves only the earliest elementary grades. Science and social studies testing data in the system reflects assessments from well over a decade ago and is not a useful current benchmark. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether proficiency has been rising or falling.
The honest summary is that Woodstock Elementary is a small neighborhood school with a community attached to it, sitting in the top tier of its county peer group on current proficiency measures, but operating on a confirmed closing timeline. Families choosing it are choosing it for a limited window, after which their children will move to a campus roughly eighteen miles west along Route 28.
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