BALMVILLE SCHOOL

BALMVILLE SCHOOL operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in NEWBURGH, New York, one of the schools within NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 376 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 10,762 students. BALMVILLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BALMVILLE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment; the rest looks like 21% Black, 13% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting BALMVILLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 44%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BALMVILLE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 53.4%; this one comes in at 29.0%, -24.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $97,178 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Orange County's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), BALMVILLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL, around 1.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BALMVILLE SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 40.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. BALMVILLE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 492 (now 376). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 41% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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