AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in AFTON, New York, AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy elementary campus, one of the schools within AFTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 210 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 53% smaller than typical.

AFTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 429 students. AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic. Compared to Chenango County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.5%; actual is 31.4%, a gap of -23.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Chenango County put the typical household earns roughly $62,948 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Chenango County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,036 students), AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is AFTON JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.6%.

AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 30%: 301 students in 2018 compared to 210 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

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