E A MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

E A MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the close-knit elementary-level communitys in SHERRILL, New York, part of SHERRILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 287 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so E A MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 35% below that benchmark.

Within SHERRILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 1,823 students, E A MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, E A MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Oneida County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Oneida County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), E A MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.5%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Oneida County put median household income runs about $70,154, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. E A MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 72 public schools in Oneida County (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students).

W F PRIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, E A MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at E A MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 9%, going from 317 students in 2018 to 287 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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