MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a compact primary school in BLOSSVALE, New York, run under CAMDEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 322 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 27% below that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in CAMDEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,003 students total), MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 40% of students at MCCONNELLSVILLE 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, MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 60.1%; MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 30.1%, -30.0 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Oneida County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,154 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oneida County runs 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students), of which MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

CAMDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 13%: 284 students in 2018 compared to 322 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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