ELLIS B HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ELLIS B HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of small scale in DANSVILLE, New York, part of DANSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 339 students in grades 3 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 443.

DANSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,315 students. ELLIS B HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, ELLIS B HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (92%) are White. The remainder is composed of 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Livingston County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, ELLIS B HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ELLIS B HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at ELLIS B HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Livingston County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ELLIS B HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.5%; this one delivers 35.7%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Livingston County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,001 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Livingston County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,217 students), of which ELLIS B HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is DANSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ELLIS B HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELLIS B HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 21%, going from 429 students in 2018 to 339 in 2025.

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