RANDOLPH ACADEMY

RANDOLPH ACADEMY, a very small K-12 campus in RANDOLPH, New York, operated by RANDOLPH ACADEMY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 80 students, covering grades 1 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 544 students each, so RANDOLPH ACADEMY sits 85% below that benchmark.

RANDOLPH ACADEMY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 153 students; RANDOLPH ACADEMY is among them.

In terms of who attends, RANDOLPH ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 19% Hispanic, 11% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Cattaraugus County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.0:1. The state averages around 8.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Cattaraugus County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, RANDOLPH ACADEMY is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 64.4%; RANDOLPH ACADEMY posts 13.5%, -50.9 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cattaraugus County) records that the typical household earns roughly $59,540 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Cattaraugus County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,228 students), of which RANDOLPH ACADEMY is one.

RANDOLPH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RANDOLPH ACADEMY comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 92 students in 2018 compared to 80 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 19% across the same window.

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