BOLIVAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a medium-sized primary school in CHITTENANGO, New York, BOLIVAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 473 students from grades pre-K through 4, one of the schools within CHITTENANGO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

CHITTENANGO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,893 students; BOLIVAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, BOLIVAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Madison County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, BOLIVAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BOLIVAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,499, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. BOLIVAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 25 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 8,402 students).

The closest other public school is CHITTENANGO HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 1.4 miles away. 2 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), BOLIVAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 73.3%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 468 students in 2018 compared to 473 in 2025.

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