Westmoreland Road Elementary School, Whitesboro NY

Original Research by School Decision on Westmoreland Road Elementary School

Westmoreland Road Elementary sits on Westmoreland Road in Whitesboro, a small suburban village in Oneida County tucked inside the Town of Whitestown. The school serves kindergarten through fifth grade within the Whitesboro Central School District, a multi-town district covering portions of Whitestown, Schuyler, Deerfield, Marcy, and Trenton. The campus is one of several dispersed elementary schools in the district rather than a neighborhood school tied tightly to any single residential block.

The school's enrollment is a modest size for a K-5 building. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Hispanic, multiracial, Black, and Asian students. Roughly half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this school in a mixed economic context rather than at either extreme. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided.

On the New York State Testing Program, the academic picture is uneven. Third-grade results are the strongest point: most students reached proficiency in both math and ELA, and those rates sit meaningfully above what you see in the fourth and fifth grades. Math proficiency drops across the grade levels from third to fifth, with the fifth-grade rate landing well below the third-grade mark. ELA tells a similar story: third grade is notably stronger, while fourth and fifth grade both come in under four in ten students reaching proficiency. Fifth-grade science results run close to the ELA and math figures for that grade. Taken together, the school's overall proficiency index places it above the midpoint among districts in Oneida County, which offers some context, though the grade-to-grade variation within the school is something a parent may want to ask about directly. Social studies results were only available from a much earlier school year and are not comparable to the current data.

No trend data was available to show whether these patterns are improving, stable, or declining.

The village itself is a built-out, older community with Cape Cod and ranch-style homes on a traditional street grid between Main Street and Oriskany Boulevard. Home values here sit well below the New York State median, and the housing market has seen modest recent appreciation year over year. Rents are relatively affordable as well, with rent-to-income ratios that are manageable by national comparison. Publicly reported data suggests homes in the surrounding Whitestown area have been selling relatively quickly. For families, entry into the housing market here is considerably more accessible than in most of New York State.

The district recently completed a voter-approved capital improvement project covering all buildings, funded without a tax increase by leveraging state building aid. This included security upgrades and new electronic marquees at each elementary school, including Westmoreland Road. The district's annual budget has also stayed within the state tax cap in recent cycles, which publicly reported accounts describe as a deliberate priority. For families considering property ownership in the district, this is a practical consideration.

Whitesboro itself functions largely as a bedroom community. The Oriskany Boulevard corridor handles most commercial activity, with grocery options, retail, and food service. A weekday bus route connects the village to downtown Utica, though the area is oriented around car travel. Parks and recreation include a village green, the Flagg Street Playground, and a seasonal farmers market. A public library within the village was not confirmed in the available information.

For a family weighing this school, the third-grade results suggest a reasonably strong foundation in the early tested years, but the drop-off into fourth and fifth grade is real and worth a conversation with the school about what drives it and what supports are in place. The community offers affordable housing relative to New York broadly, stable taxes, and a quiet suburban setting with easy access to the Utica area.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 368%

School 68% · District 74% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 460%

School 60% · District 75% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 544%

School 44% · District 72% · ▼ 28 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 367%

School 67% · District 64% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 437%

School 37% · District 57% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 539%

School 39% · District 62% · ▼ 24 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Science

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 61% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 598%

School 98% · district not reported

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

This schoolWHITESBORO CENTRAL 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-income58%Higher-income79%22 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income27%Higher-income50%24 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income23%Higher-income54%31 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income56%Higher-income83%27 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income44%Higher-income79%35 pp gap

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