JAMES S EVANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

JAMES S EVANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate K-5 school in WAPPINGERS FALLS, New York, overseen by WAPPINGERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 297 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so JAMES S EVANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 33% below that benchmark.

WAPPINGERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 10,199 students. JAMES S EVANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, JAMES S EVANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 28% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JAMES S EVANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of -6.0 points.

In the area at large, Dutchess County reports that the typical household earns roughly $99,478 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. JAMES S EVANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 76 public schools in Dutchess County (combined enrollment of about 36,885 students).

The closest other public school is WAPPINGERS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JAMES S EVANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 335 students in 2018 compared to 297 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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