CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an average-sized primary school in CATSKILL, New York, operated by CATSKILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 550 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% larger than the state mean of about 443.

CATSKILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,208 students; CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 55.0%; CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 33.0%, -22.0 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Greene County) records that the typical household earns roughly $77,945 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 16 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 5,042 students).

CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 20%: 684 students in 2018 compared to 550 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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