MORSE SCHOOL

MORSE SCHOOL is one of the cozy elementary campuss in SAUGERTIES, New York, one of the schools within SAUGERTIES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 307 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

SAUGERTIES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,287 students. MORSE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, MORSE SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, MORSE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.5%, the actual is 47.9%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Ulster County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,271 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MORSE SCHOOL is one of 45 public schools in Ulster County (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students).

The closest other public school is SAUGERTIES JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 3.7 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MORSE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 307 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 85% to 79% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.