PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary-level community in SCHENECTADY, New York, run under SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 468 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 15 schools operated by SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 8,948 students overall.

Demographically, PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Asian (29%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 21% Hispanic, 19% White, 17% Black, 12% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 74% of students at PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Schenectady County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.6%, the actual is 29.5%, a residual of -18.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Schenectady County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,623 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Schenectady County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students), PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 39.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 514 (now 468). The Asian share of enrollment ticked up from 22% to 29% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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