ABRAM LANSING SCHOOL

Set in COHOES, New York, ABRAM LANSING SCHOOL is a low-enrollment primary school, part of COHOES CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 305 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 5 schools in COHOES CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,847 students total), ABRAM LANSING SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ABRAM LANSING SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 17% Black, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Albany County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ABRAM LANSING SCHOOL has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Albany County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ABRAM LANSING SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Albany County shows median household earnings sit near $85,333, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Albany County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students), of which ABRAM LANSING SCHOOL is one.

COHOES MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ABRAM LANSING SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. ABRAM LANSING SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 398 (now 305). White enrollment moved from 75% to 53% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.