ANDREW J SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ANDREW J SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a modestly sized elementary school in UNION SPRINGS, New York, one of the schools within UNION SPRINGS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 332 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

Within UNION SPRINGS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 709 students, ANDREW J SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, ANDREW J SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that nearly all students (88%) are White; the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ANDREW J SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, ANDREW J SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.5%; this one delivers 57.3%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cayuga County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,904 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Cayuga County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,576 students), ANDREW J SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: UNION SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ANDREW J SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.