PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a low-enrollment K-5 school in SCHENECTADY, New York, PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL teaches 351 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 21% smaller than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Asian at 28%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 23% Black, 11% White, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Schenectady County (around 50%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.4%; PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 19.8%, -23.6 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Schenectady County put median household earnings sit near $79,623, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 40 public schools in Schenectady County (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students).

MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 25.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 19% since 2018, when it stood at 434 (now 351). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 35% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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