EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a tiny primary school in ATHENS, New York, overseen by COXSACKIE-ATHENS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 177 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 60% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in COXSACKIE-ATHENS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,128 students total), EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Greene County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 65.0%; actual is 44.9%, a gap of -20.1 points.

In the broader community, Greene County reports that median household income runs about $77,945, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 16 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 5,042 students).

The closest other public school is MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 2.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.

EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 203 (now 177). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 5% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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