ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 1151 ALBANY ST, in UTICA, New York, ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that instructs 478 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 13 schools and 9,075 students, ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 18% Black, 17% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Oneida County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.8%; this one delivers 38.9%.

In the area at large, census data for Oneida County shows median household income runs about $70,154, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 72 public schools in Oneida County (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students).

Nearest neighbor: THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.8%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 23%, going from 621 students in 2018 to 478 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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