ICHABOD CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in VALATIE, New York, ICHABOD CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, operated by KINDERHOOK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 475 students across grades K through 3.

ICHABOD CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by KINDERHOOK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 1,679 students overall.

On demographics, ICHABOD CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ICHABOD CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ICHABOD CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Columbia County (around 48%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ICHABOD CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Columbia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,528 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. ICHABOD CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 17 public schools in Columbia County (combined enrollment of about 6,006 students).

The closest other public school is ICHABOD CRANE MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ICHABOD CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 502 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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