BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in ELMIRA, New York, BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate K-5 school, operated by ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 364 students across grades 3 through 6.

ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,322 students. BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder looks like 10% multiracial, 5% Black. Compared to Chemung County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Chemung County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 35.8%, a residual of -15.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Chemung County shows median household income runs about $63,716, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Chemung County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,788 students), BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BROADWAY ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 18% since 2018, when it stood at 442 (now 364). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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