HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack primary school in HERKIMER, New York, one of the schools within HERKIMER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school hosts 533 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 20% above that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in HERKIMER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,070 students total), HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% Black, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.4%; actual is 31.4%, a gap of -25.0 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Herkimer County) records that the typical household earns roughly $68,515 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 25 public schools in Herkimer County (combined enrollment of about 9,619 students).

The closest other public school is HERKIMER-FULTON-HAMILTON-OTSEGO BOCES, roughly 0.4 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 59.7%.

HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 14% since 2018, when it stood at 622 (now 533).

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