KERHONKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

KERHONKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of close-knit scale in KERHONKSON, New York, run under RONDOUT VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 215 students in grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so KERHONKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 51% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in RONDOUT VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,693 students total), KERHONKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, KERHONKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KERHONKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Ulster County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,271 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Ulster County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students), of which KERHONKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

RONDOUT VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KERHONKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 49.6%.

KERHONKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. KERHONKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 232 (now 215). Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 in 2025.

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