LEPTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LEPTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of moderately sized scale in WALLKILL, New York, operated by WALLKILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serveing 460 students in grades K through 6.

Within WALLKILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,706 students, LEPTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, LEPTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 61%; the rest comes out to 29% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Orange County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, LEPTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, LEPTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 66.0%; actual is 45.0%, a gap of -21.0 points.

Across the wider county, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,178, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Orange County's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), LEPTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PLATTEKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 2.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEPTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 53.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. LEPTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 515 (now 460). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 21% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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