NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in WATERTOWN, New York, one of the schools within WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 435 students spanning grades K through 4.

Across the 8 schools in WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,940 students total), NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 18% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 4% Black. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jefferson County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.0%; actual is 28.8%, a gap of -20.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household income runs about $66,301, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,789 students), of which NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is STARBUCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.1%.

NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 501 students in 2018 compared to 435 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 9% to 4% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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