MARGARET W CUYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MARGARET W CUYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of close-knit scale in RED CREEK, New York, run under RED CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 350 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 21% leaner than typical.

Across the 3 schools in RED CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (783 students total), MARGARET W CUYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, MARGARET W CUYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%); the rest consists of 3% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at MARGARET W CUYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARGARET W CUYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 56.4%; this one comes in at 36.1%, -20.3 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Wayne County put median household income runs about $74,506, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Wayne County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,068 students), MARGARET W CUYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RED CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around MARGARET W CUYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MARGARET W CUYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARGARET W CUYLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 19%, going from 432 students in 2018 to 350 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.