BENTON HALL ACADEMY

As a mid-tier elementary school in LITTLE FALLS, New York, BENTON HALL ACADEMY hosts 441 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under LITTLE FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within LITTLE FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,005 students, BENTON HALL ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, BENTON HALL ACADEMY shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Herkimer County as a whole.

On the resource side, BENTON HALL ACADEMY reports 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BENTON HALL ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Herkimer County indicate median household income runs about $68,515, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Herkimer County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,619 students), BENTON HALL ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

LITTLE FALLS HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around BENTON HALL ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, BENTON HALL ACADEMY comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 527 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 99% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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