Monroe NY News

Of the 2,834 students in Genesee County who took the 2022-23 English Language Arts test, 29.6% met expectations and 12.9% did better than expected, according to the New York State Education Department.

In total, 42.5% of Genesee County students met or exceeded expectations, marking a 1% decline from the previous school year's results.

Within the county, Pembroke Junior-Senior High School and Oakfield-Alabama Middle School High School students performed the best in English Language Arts, with 55% of them considered proficient in the subject. Meanwhile, Byron-Bergen Elementary School students fared the worst, with only 25% passing the test.

The state registered an overall proficiency rate of 48% of students who met or exceeded expectations.

A recent study by Scholaroo ranked New York's education system among the best in the U.S., and place it as the second best in terms of school quality.

Currently, the state has the highest per-pupil spending in the nation at $33,440, or a total of $84.7 billion annually.

School	Students who met standards (%)	Students who exceed standards (%)	Total Enrollment
Pembroke Junior-Senior High School	33%	22%	417
Oakfield-Alabama Middle School High School	32%	23%	385
Le Roy Junior-Senior High School	36%	18%	543
Pembroke Intermediate School	33%	18%	257
Alexander Middle School-High School	35%	14%	423
Byron-Bergen Junior/Senior High School	32%	15%	436
John Kennedy School	29%	17%	481
Pavilion Junior-Senior High School	40%	5%	324
Batavia Middle School	28%	14%	596
Wolcott Street School	28%	11%	609
Oakfield-Alabama Elementary School	29%	9%	351
Alexander Elementary School	23%	8%	314
Elba Elementary School	27%	2%	241
D. B. Bunce Elementary School	23%	5%	317
Byron-Bergen Elementary School	22%	3%	410