BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the heavily attended primary schools in AMSTERDAM, New York, overseen by BROADALBIN-PERTH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 879 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 98% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

BROADALBIN-PERTH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,635 students; BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 4% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Fulton County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.0%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of -18.7 points.

In the broader community, Fulton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,533 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fulton County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,173 students), of which BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BROADALBIN-PERTH JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 2.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 37.2%.

BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 121%: 397 students in 2018 compared to 879 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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