LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the small elementary-level communitys in NEW PALTZ, New York, part of NEW PALTZ CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 368 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5.

LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by NEW PALTZ CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 1,673 students overall.

On demographics, LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. Compared to Ulster County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ulster County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.8%, the actual is 59.5%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Ulster County put median household income runs about $86,271, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ulster County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students), LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

NEW PALTZ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.3%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 20%: 459 students in 2018 compared to 368 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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