DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in DERUYTER, New York, DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a minimally staffed elementary school, operated by DERUYTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 119 students across grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 73% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

Within DERUYTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 306 students, DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school reports 3% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, On paper, DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 60.5%; DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 34.5%, -26.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,499, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Madison County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,402 students), DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DERUYTER HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. DERUYTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 154 (now 119).

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