EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of substantial scale in PORT JERVIS, New York, one of the schools within PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 702 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 58% above typical.

PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,302 students. EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 26% Hispanic, 14% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Orange County's rate of about 44%.

With demographic context factored in, EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of -8.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,178 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), of which EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

PORT JERVIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.

EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 899 students in 2018 compared to 702 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.