Enrollment
174
Elementary
DISTRICT 166 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUNTER-TANNERSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361506001258
HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
7794 MAIN ST, HUNTER, NY 12442 · (518) 263-4256 · Greene County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL174 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
6.7:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 7.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
88 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
43.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
174
-61 (-26%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
6.7:1
was 10.7:1
% White
80%
was 82%
% Hispanic
9%
was 11%
% Black
3%
was 1%
% Asian
1%
was 2%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in HUNTER, New York, HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a rural-scale primary school, run under HUNTER-TANNERSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 174 students across grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 61% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.
Across the 2 schools in HUNTER-TANNERSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (331 students total), HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 51% of students at HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.4%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of -12.9 points.
In the area at large, Greene County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,945 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Greene County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,042 students), HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is HUNTER-TANNERSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 3.9 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Five-year trend. HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 235 (now 174). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 6.7:1 today.
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Greene County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,409
Census ACS
Median income
$77,945
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
5,042 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HUNTER-TANNERSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HUNTER-TANNERSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 157 students
Nearby schools
- HUNTER-TANNERSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL3.9 mi · 157
- WINDHAM ASHLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL7.0 mi · 282
- PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL10.0 mi · 114
- CAIRO-DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL11.9 mi · 333
- CAIRO-DURHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL11.9 mi · 272
- MORSE SCHOOL12.4 mi · 307
Frequently asked questions
About HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 174 students in grades PK-08.
Is HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 6.7:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 80% White, 9% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HUNTER-TANNERSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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