ALDEN PRIMARY AT TOWNLINE

ALDEN PRIMARY AT TOWNLINE operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in ALDEN, New York, part of ALDEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 299 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so ALDEN PRIMARY AT TOWNLINE sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

ALDEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,474 students. ALDEN PRIMARY AT TOWNLINE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, ALDEN PRIMARY AT TOWNLINE shows that nearly all students (91%) are White. The remainder looks like 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), ALDEN PRIMARY AT TOWNLINE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL, roughly 3.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALDEN PRIMARY AT TOWNLINE.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALDEN PRIMARY AT TOWNLINE has shrank 13%, going from 344 students in 2018 to 299 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 95% to 91%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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