ORENDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in CLIFTON PARK, New York, ORENDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary-level community, run under SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 548 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 24% bigger than typical.

ORENDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 12 schools operated by SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that hosts 9,348 students overall.

Demographically, ORENDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, ORENDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ORENDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Saratoga County's rate of about 30%.

With demographic context factored in, ORENDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.6%, the actual is 61.8%, a residual of -5.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Saratoga County reports that median household earnings sit near $100,787, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Saratoga County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,097 students), of which ORENDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: KARIGON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ORENDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 76.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ORENDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 4%, going from 571 students in 2018 to 548 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 5% to 11% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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