CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in SLATERVILLE SPRINGS, New York, CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small K-5 school, one of the schools within ITHACA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 273 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.

ITHACA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 4,988 students. CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 74%. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Tompkins County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 27% of students at CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Tompkins County's rate of about 36%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.9%, the actual is 59.8%, a residual of -5.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Tompkins County shows median household earnings sit near $74,024, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Tompkins County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,392 students), CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MACCORMICK SECURE CENTER, around 5.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 341 (now 273). The White share of enrollment edged down from 80% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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