CHAMBERS SCHOOL

As a small elementary campus in KINGSTON, New York, CHAMBERS SCHOOL educates 306 students from grades K through 4, run under KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 10 schools in KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (5,877 students total), CHAMBERS SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, CHAMBERS SCHOOL reports that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 37% White, 8% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Ulster County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Ulster County's rate of about 41%.

With demographic context factored in, CHAMBERS SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 55.3%; this one comes in at 31.7%, -23.6 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Ulster County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,271 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Ulster County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students), CHAMBERS SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHAMBERS SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHAMBERS SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.7%.

CHAMBERS SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CHAMBERS SCHOOL has shrank 19%, going from 377 students in 2018 to 306 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 32% to 42% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

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