CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a moderately sized elementary campus in BALLSTON LAKE, New York, operated by SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 510 students, covering grades K through 5.

SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 9,348 students. CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 77% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 7% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

Looking at school resources, CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Saratoga County (around 30%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.9%, the actual is 76.7%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Saratoga County shows median household earnings sit near $100,787, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Saratoga County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,097 students), of which CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 3.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 73.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 541 students in 2018 compared to 510 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 77% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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