PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized K-5 school in PENN YAN, New York, run under PENN YAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 545 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 23% larger than typical.

PENN YAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,260 students. PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (87%) are White. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Yates County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.7%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -9.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Yates County) records that the typical household earns roughly $69,701 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Yates County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,097 students), PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PENN YAN ACADEMY, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 52.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 14%, going from 631 students in 2018 to 545 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 94% to 87%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 today.

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