HAGAN SCHOOL

HAGAN SCHOOL is an elementary school of tight-knit scale in POUGHKEEPSIE, New York, overseen by SPACKENKILL UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 342 students in grades 3 through 5. That puts it 23% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within SPACKENKILL UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,556 students, HAGAN SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, HAGAN SCHOOL reports that 58% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 15% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 9% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Dutchess County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, HAGAN SCHOOL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Dutchess County's rate of about 40%.

After controlling for student poverty, HAGAN SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.4%, the actual is 61.3%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Dutchess County indicate median household income runs about $99,478, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dutchess County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,885 students), of which HAGAN SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SPACKENKILL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HAGAN SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 12%: 305 students in 2018 compared to 342 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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