HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in SCHENECTADY, New York, run under SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 440 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 15 schools and 8,948 students, HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 25% Black, 17% Asian, 13% White, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Schenectady County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 85% of students at HAMILTON ELEMENTARY 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.7%; this one comes in at 13.5%, -30.2 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Schenectady County shows median household income runs about $79,623, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Schenectady County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students), HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 26.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 460 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 23% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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