BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the sprawling K-5 schools in FALLSBURG, New York, operated by FALLSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 841 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 90% larger than that benchmark.

FALLSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,504 students. BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 22% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sullivan County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.0%; BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 22.8%, -24.2 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Sullivan County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,382 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Sullivan County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,164 students), BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FALLSBURG JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has climbed 7%, going from 788 students in 2018 to 841 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 51% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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