LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a tight-knit primary school in NEW CITY, New York, part of CLARKSTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 264 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 40% below the state mean of about 443.

CLARKSTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 7,821 students; LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 29% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Rockland County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Rockland County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Rockland County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,959, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Rockland County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students), LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ROCKLAND COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 285 (now 264). White enrollment moved from 64% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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