HARVEY C FENNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HARVEY C FENNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of modestly sized scale in FALCONER, New York, one of the schools within FALCONER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 222 students in grades 3 through 5. That puts it 50% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within FALCONER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,070 students, HARVEY C FENNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, HARVEY C FENNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 5% Hispanic, 3% Black. Compared to Chautauqua County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, HARVEY C FENNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HARVEY C FENNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.3%, the actual is 36.0%, a residual of -18.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Chautauqua County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,351 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Chautauqua County's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students), HARVEY C FENNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is FALCONER MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARVEY C FENNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARVEY C FENNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.5%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. HARVEY C FENNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 237 (now 222). Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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