ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL

ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary school in HURLEY, New York, run under KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 213 students, covering grades K through 4. That puts it 52% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,877 students; ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest reads as 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Ulster County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 26% of students at ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ulster County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 65.5%; this one comes in at 46.6%, -18.9 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Ulster County put median household income runs about $86,271, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Ulster County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students), ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HARRY L EDSON SCHOOL, roughly 1.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 38.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 216 students in 2018 compared to 213 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 81% to 76%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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