DONALD P SUTHERLAND SCHOOL

DONALD P SUTHERLAND SCHOOL operates as a compact elementary-level community in NASSAU, New York, part of EAST GREENBUSH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 250 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so DONALD P SUTHERLAND SCHOOL sits 44% smaller than that benchmark.

Within EAST GREENBUSH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 4,085 students, DONALD P SUTHERLAND SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DONALD P SUTHERLAND SCHOOL records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting DONALD P SUTHERLAND SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 33% of students at DONALD P SUTHERLAND SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Rensselaer County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, DONALD P SUTHERLAND SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.9%, the actual is 64.3%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Rensselaer County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $87,915 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DONALD P SUTHERLAND SCHOOL is one of 42 public schools in Rensselaer County (combined enrollment of about 19,274 students).

GREEN MEADOW SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around DONALD P SUTHERLAND SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, DONALD P SUTHERLAND SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 67.5%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 281 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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