MEADOW HILL SCHOOL

MEADOW HILL SCHOOL operates as a heavily attended elementary-level community in NEWBURGH, New York, run under NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 982 students spanning grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 122% larger than typical.

Within NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 12 schools and 10,762 students, MEADOW HILL SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, MEADOW HILL SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 14% Black, 12% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MEADOW HILL SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MEADOW HILL SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,178 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. MEADOW HILL SCHOOL is one of 82 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students).

GARDNERTOWN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MEADOW HILL SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MEADOW HILL SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. MEADOW HILL SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,046 (now 982). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 55% to 66% over that span.

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