DOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 9 SCHOOL ST, in DOVER PLAINS, New York, DOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary campus that serves 305 students (grades 3 through 5), part of DOVER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so DOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 31% smaller than that benchmark.

DOVER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,317 students. DOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, DOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 46% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, DOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Dutchess County's rate of about 40%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.1%; this one comes in at 26.4%, -22.7 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Dutchess County shows the typical household earns roughly $99,478 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Dutchess County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,885 students), of which DOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

DOVER HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.7 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 64.3%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 5%, going from 320 students in 2018 to 305 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 31% to 46%.

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