FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 425 E MAIN ST, in FREDONIA, New York, FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized K-5 school that serves 432 students (grades 1 through 4), run under FREDONIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

FREDONIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,484 students. FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 22% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 51% of students at FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.2%, the actual is 44.1%, a residual of -12.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Chautauqua County) shows that median household income runs about $58,351, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Chautauqua County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students), of which FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.5%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 596 students in 2018 compared to 432 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 75% to 70%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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