Public school / Primary
Watson Williams Elementary School
Utica, New York
- NCES ID
- 362937000262
- District
- Utica City School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Watson Williams Elementary School is a public primary school in Utica, New York, run by Utica City School District. It enrols 630 students — the 24173rd largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
630
Teachers
46.0
Students per teacher
13.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
88.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Utica City School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Thomas R Proctor High School2,675 students
- 2Senator James H Donovan Middle School730 students
- 3John F Kennedy Middle School695 students
- 4Christopher Columbus Elementary School639 students
- 5Watson Williams Elementary School630 students
- 6General Herkimer Elementary School597 students
- 7Kernan Elementary School566 students
- 8Albany Elementary School513 students
- Enrollment+39.1%
- Teachers+24.3%
- Students per teacher+19.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+51.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory