MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a sprawling K-5 school in MIDDLETOWN, New York, one of the schools within MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 1,064 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 140% above the state mean of about 443.

Across the 6 schools in MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (7,176 students total), MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%. Beyond that, the school lists 21% Black, 7% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 119 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 26.5%, a residual of -18.3 points.

Around the school, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,178 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Orange County's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MONHAGEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 4%, going from 1,105 students in 2018 to 1,064 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 58% to 66%. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 in 2025.

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