BIG CROSS STREET SCHOOL

BIG CROSS STREET SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school in GLENS FALLS, New York, one of the schools within GLENS FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 211 students in grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 52% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

GLENS FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,972 students; BIG CROSS STREET SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BIG CROSS STREET SCHOOL reports that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 92% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Warren County (around 41%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BIG CROSS STREET SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.2%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Warren County put median household income runs about $78,442, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BIG CROSS STREET SCHOOL is one of 19 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 7,825 students).

GLENS FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BIG CROSS STREET SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 19%: 259 students in 2018 compared to 211 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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