PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a reasonably sized primary school in SCOTIA, New York, PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 470 students from grades K through 5, part of BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,105 students; PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Schenectady County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 21% of students at PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Schenectady County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.4%; this one delivers 64.3%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Schenectady County) logs that median household income runs about $79,623, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 40 public schools in Schenectady County (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students).

Nearest neighbor: CHARLTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 63.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has increased 7%, going from 440 students in 2018 to 470 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 92% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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