CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in OSWEGO, New York, run under OSWEGO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 390 students in grades K through 6.

CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 7 schools operated by OSWEGO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 3,460 students overall.

In terms of who attends, CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 92% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.4%; actual is 37.2%, a gap of -19.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Oswego County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,183, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 37 public schools in Oswego County (combined enrollment of about 17,529 students).

The closest other public school is KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 40.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 4%, going from 406 students in 2018 to 390 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 13% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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