ELDORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ELDORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school in CHESTNUT RIDGE, New York, run under EAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPRING VALLEY). The school instructs 598 students in grades 3 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 35% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 14 schools in EAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPRING VALLEY) (10,424 students total), ELDORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, ELDORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%); the rest breaks down as 12% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, ELDORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Rockland County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ELDORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.2%; ELDORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 15.8%, -26.4 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Rockland County put median household earnings sit near $109,959, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Rockland County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students), of which ELDORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

CHESTNUT RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ELDORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. ELDORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 22% since 2018, when it stood at 489 (now 598). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 68% to 84%.

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