GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL

GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL is a well-populated elementary-level community in NEWBURGH, New York, one of the schools within NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school hosts 788 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL sits 78% bigger than that benchmark.

Within NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 12 schools and 10,762 students, GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL lists that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 18% Black, 6% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 44%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.3%; GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL posts 26.9%, -26.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,178, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Orange County's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 38.6%.

GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 4%: 819 students in 2018 compared to 788 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.