PINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in SOUTH DAYTON, New York, PINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy K-5 school, one of the schools within PINE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SOUTH DAYTON). It serves 319 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 28% below that benchmark.

PINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by PINE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SOUTH DAYTON), a district that teaches 518 students overall.

On demographics, PINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, PINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 56.0%; this one comes in at 32.6%, -23.4 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Chautauqua County put median household income runs about $58,351, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. PINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 51 public schools in Chautauqua County (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students).

PINE VALLEY CENTRAL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, PINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. PINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 10% since 2018, when it stood at 291 (now 319).

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