AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a small primary school in VESTAL, New York, AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 325 students from grades K through 5, operated by VESTAL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 27% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

VESTAL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,404 students; AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 35% Asian, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Broome County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 31% of students at AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Broome County's rate of about 52%.

After controlling for student poverty, AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Broome County indicate median household income runs about $62,616, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Broome County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,594 students), AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 66.4%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 24%: 263 students in 2018 compared to 325 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 59% to 50% over that span.

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