CANDOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 2 ACADEMY ST, in CANDOR, New York, CANDOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-tier K-5 school that hosts 401 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under CANDOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

CANDOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by CANDOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 707 students overall.

Looking at the student body, CANDOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Tioga County's rate of about 53%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CANDOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 52.5%; this one comes in at 28.7%, -23.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Tioga County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,739, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Tioga County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,112 students), CANDOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CANDOR JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CANDOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 41.8%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CANDOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged up 7%, going from 375 students in 2018 to 401 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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