N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL

N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL operates as a small elementary campus in CUDDEBACKVILLE, New York, overseen by PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 308 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 30% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 4 schools in PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,302 students total), N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL reports that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 13% Hispanic, 5% Black. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.8%; actual is 37.8%, a gap of -19.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $97,178, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), of which N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: OTISVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 3.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 408 (now 308). Over the same period, the White share grew from 77% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.