ARKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL

ARKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL is one of the modestly sized unified-grade schools in ARKPORT, New York, run under ARKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 435 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 544 students each, so ARKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL sits 20% below that benchmark.

ARKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL sits inside ARKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, ARKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Steuben County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.1:1. The state averages about 8.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Steuben County (around 51%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ARKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.3%; this one delivers 57.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Steuben County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,887 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Steuben County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,701 students), ARKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NORTH HORNELL SCHOOL, roughly 3.4 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ARKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 55.6%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. ARKPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 445 (now 435). The White share of enrollment declined from 94% to 90% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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