BLUE CREEK SCHOOL

BLUE CREEK SCHOOL is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in LATHAM, New York, part of NORTH COLONIE CSD, with 450 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within NORTH COLONIE CSD, which oversees 8 schools and 6,145 students, BLUE CREEK SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, BLUE CREEK SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 23% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, BLUE CREEK SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.8%; this one delivers 54.2%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Albany County) shows that median household earnings sit near $85,333, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Albany County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students), BLUE CREEK SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SHAKER MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BLUE CREEK SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BLUE CREEK SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. BLUE CREEK SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 499 (now 450). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 60% to 52%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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