HAMMOND CENTRAL SCHOOL

HAMMOND CENTRAL SCHOOL is a K-12 campus of compact scale in HAMMOND, New York, run under HAMMOND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 225 students in grades pre-K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 544 students per school, that is 59% smaller than typical.

Operationally, HAMMOND CENTRAL SCHOOL answers to HAMMOND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HAMMOND CENTRAL SCHOOL lists that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, HAMMOND CENTRAL SCHOOL logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HAMMOND CENTRAL SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.3%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Lawrence County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,850 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, St. Lawrence County runs 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,653 students), of which HAMMOND CENTRAL SCHOOL is one.

MORRISTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.1 miles from this campus. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HAMMOND CENTRAL SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 49.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 19%: 277 students in 2018 compared to 225 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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