DEPOSIT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DEPOSIT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the cozy elementary campuss in DEPOSIT, New York, part of DEPOSIT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 242 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 45% smaller than typical.

DEPOSIT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 485 students. DEPOSIT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DEPOSIT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). The remainder breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, DEPOSIT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Delaware County's rate of about 47%.

With demographic context factored in, DEPOSIT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.3%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -9.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Delaware County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,337 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Delaware County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,307 students), DEPOSIT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

DEPOSIT MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, DEPOSIT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 237 students in 2018 compared to 242 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 96% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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