PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a rural-scale elementary school in PHOENICIA, New York, overseen by ONTEORA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 114 students, covering grades K through 3. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 74% leaner than that benchmark.

ONTEORA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,157 students; PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. Compared to Ulster County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 58.0%, a residual of -3.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Ulster County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,271 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Ulster County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students), of which PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 57.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 6-year window. PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 127 (now 114). White enrollment moved from 65% to 77% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 8.5:1 in 2018 to 6.9:1 in 2024.

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