HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As an average-sized elementary-level community in AUBURN, New York, HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 399 students from grades K through 6, run under AUBURN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within AUBURN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 3,732 students, HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest breaks down as 12% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 51% of students at HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.1%, the actual is 38.8%, a residual of -17.3 points.

In the broader community, Cayuga County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,904, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cayuga County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,576 students), of which HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: AUBURN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 19% since 2018, when it stood at 493 (now 399). White enrollment moved from 83% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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