BELFAST SCHOOL

BELFAST SCHOOL is one of the modestly sized all-grades campuss in BELFAST, New York, part of BELFAST CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 318 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 42% smaller than the state mean of about 544.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, BELFAST SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.7:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, BELFAST SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Allegany County indicate median household income runs about $62,869, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Allegany County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,589 students), of which BELFAST SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: FILLMORE CENTRAL SCHOOL, around 8.6 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, BELFAST SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.0%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BELFAST SCHOOL has decreased 8%, going from 347 students in 2018 to 318 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 9.4:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 today.

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