ELM STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ELM STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-tier K-5 school in WAVERLY, New York, overseen by WAVERLY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 426 students in grades 1 through 4.

WAVERLY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,605 students. ELM STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ELM STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Tioga County as a whole.

On the resource side, ELM STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at ELM STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ELM STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 38.1%, a residual of -14.8 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Tioga County put the typical household earns roughly $72,739 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Tioga County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,112 students), of which ELM STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is LINCOLN STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ELM STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 34%: 319 students in 2018 compared to 426 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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