MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in PATTERSON, New York, one of the schools within CARMEL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 464 students in grades K through 4.

MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by CARMEL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 3,651 students overall.

Looking at the student body, MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 42% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Putnam County (around 29%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.7%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Putnam County put median household earnings sit near $126,257, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 23 public schools in Putnam County (combined enrollment of about 12,955 students).

KENT PRIMARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.4%.

MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 496 (now 464). White enrollment moved from 66% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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