FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a tight-knit elementary campus in FORESTVILLE, New York, one of the schools within FORESTVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 211 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 52% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in FORESTVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (396 students total), FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Chautauqua County's rate of about 57%.

After controlling for student poverty, FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Chautauqua County) shows that median household earnings sit near $58,351, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 51 public schools in Chautauqua County (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students).

FORESTVILLE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 230 (now 211). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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