GLENDAAL SCHOOL

Set in SCOTIA, New York, GLENDAAL SCHOOL is a compact elementary-level community, operated by SCOTIA-GLENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 224 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 49% below typical.

Within SCOTIA-GLENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 2,102 students, GLENDAAL SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, GLENDAAL SCHOOL logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 8% Hispanic, 4% Black. By comparison, Schenectady County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GLENDAAL SCHOOL has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 25% of students at GLENDAAL SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Schenectady County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, GLENDAAL SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.6%, the actual is 65.6%, a residual of +0.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Schenectady County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,623 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. GLENDAAL SCHOOL is one of 40 public schools in Schenectady County (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students).

CHARLTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GLENDAAL SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 64.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 218 students in 2018 compared to 224 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 95% to 87% across the same window.

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