APALACHIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in APALACHIN, New York, APALACHIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized primary school, run under OWEGO-APALACHIN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 382 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 5 schools in OWEGO-APALACHIN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,958 students total), APALACHIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, APALACHIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% multiracial. Compared to Tioga County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, APALACHIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average.

Around the school, Tioga County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,739 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Tioga County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,112 students), of which APALACHIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: THOMAS J WATSON SR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 449 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the APALACHIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.