NATHAN T HALL SCHOOL

NATHAN T HALL SCHOOL is a close-knit elementary school in NEWARK VALLEY, New York, overseen by NEWARK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school caters to 325 students in grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEWARK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 981 students; NATHAN T HALL SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, NATHAN T HALL SCHOOL records that nearly all students (94%) are White. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 56% 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, On a poverty-adjusted basis, NATHAN T HALL SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.5%; actual is 22.5%, a gap of -32.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Tioga County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,739, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tioga County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,112 students), of which NATHAN T HALL SCHOOL is one.

NEWARK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around NATHAN T HALL SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, NATHAN T HALL SCHOOL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 325 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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