MILTON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in BALLSTON SPA, New York, MILTON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy primary school, run under BALLSTON SPA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 370 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 6 schools in BALLSTON SPA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,826 students total), MILTON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, MILTON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Saratoga County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 34% of students at MILTON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, MILTON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.7%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of +7.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Saratoga County) records that the typical household earns roughly $100,787 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MILTON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 50 public schools in Saratoga County (combined enrollment of about 30,097 students).

WOOD ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MILTON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 64.6%.

MILTON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 19%: 455 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 93% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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