A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in WINDSOR, New York, A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary-level community, part of WINDSOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 542 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 22% above that benchmark.

A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by WINDSOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 1,536 students overall.

On demographics, A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Broome County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.3%, the actual is 63.9%, a residual of +6.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Broome County shows the typical household earns roughly $62,616 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Broome County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,594 students), of which A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

WINDSOR CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 55.7%.

A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL has declined 8%, going from 586 students in 2018 to 542 in 2025.

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