DOLGEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DOLGEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized primary school in DOLGEVILLE, New York, one of the schools within DOLGEVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 419 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

DOLGEVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 788 students; DOLGEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, DOLGEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 2% Black.

Looking at school resources, DOLGEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at DOLGEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DOLGEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.0%; DOLGEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 25.8%, -30.3 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Herkimer County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $68,515 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. DOLGEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 25 public schools in Herkimer County (combined enrollment of about 9,619 students).

Nearest neighbor: JAMES A GREEN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DOLGEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 20%: 348 students in 2018 compared to 419 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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