RED JACKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in SHORTSVILLE, New York, RED JACKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a close-knit elementary school, one of the schools within MANCHESTER-SHORTSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (RED JACKET). It teaches 323 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so RED JACKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

MANCHESTER-SHORTSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (RED JACKET) comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 715 students; RED JACKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, RED JACKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder looks like 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Ontario County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ontario County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RED JACKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.8%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of -2.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Ontario County shows median household income runs about $82,324, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Ontario County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,114 students), RED JACKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RED JACKET HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around RED JACKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RED JACKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RED JACKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 10%, going from 359 students in 2018 to 323 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 79% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for RED JACKET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.