GREATER PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 60 W END AVE, in ONEONTA, New York, GREATER PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small primary school that serves 283 students (grades K through 5), overseen by ONEONTA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 36% leaner than typical.

ONEONTA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,679 students; GREATER PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, GREATER PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Otsego County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Otsego County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GREATER PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 63.4%; GREATER PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 41.3%, -22.1 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Otsego County put the typical household earns roughly $68,885 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Otsego County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,216 students), of which GREATER PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GREATER PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GREATER PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 6%, going from 302 students in 2018 to 283 in 2025.

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