GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY

GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY is an elementary school of modestly sized scale in FLORIDA, New York, run under FLORIDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 335 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Within FLORIDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 726 students, GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 29% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 44%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.7%, the actual is 53.7%, a residual of -9.0 points.

In the area at large, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,178 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY is one of 82 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students).

Nearest neighbor: S S SEWARD INSTITUTE, around 0.6 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 63.5%.

GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY has contracted 12%, going from 380 students in 2018 to 335 in 2025.

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