ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in ALBANY, New York, ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate K-5 school, operated by ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 301 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 32% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 16 schools operated by ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 8,509 students overall.

On demographics, ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Black students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder reads as 20% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Albany County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Albany County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 43.4%; actual is 23.2%, a gap of -20.1 points.

In the broader community, Albany County reports that median household income runs about $85,333, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Albany County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students), of which ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM AT ALBANY INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.6%.

ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 4%, going from 314 students in 2018 to 301 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 69% to 61% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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