OKTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

OKTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in CLIFTON PARK, New York, operated by SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 519 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 12 schools in SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (9,348 students total), OKTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, OKTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 12% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Saratoga County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OKTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.0%, the actual is 65.3%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Saratoga County shows median household income runs about $100,787, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Saratoga County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,097 students), of which OKTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ARONGEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 2.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OKTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 74.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 511 students in 2018 compared to 519 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 71% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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