BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a compact K-5 school in ITHACA, New York, overseen by ITHACA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 258 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

ITHACA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 4,988 students. BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 22% Black, 16% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tompkins County runs at roughly 36%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 52.8%; BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 32.7%, -20.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Tompkins County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,024, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tompkins County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,392 students), BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 61.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 8%, going from 281 students in 2018 to 258 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.