LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL

LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a close-knit primary school in POUGHKEEPSIE, New York, part of LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL. Current enrollment sits at 202 students spanning grades K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 54% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is the operating authority for LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL lists that 77% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 16% Hispanic, 6% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

Looking at school resources, LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL reports 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 33.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dutchess County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Dutchess County put median household earnings sit near $99,478, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 76 public schools in Dutchess County (combined enrollment of about 36,885 students).

The closest other public school is S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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