REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a compact K-5 school in BOICEVILLE, New York, run under ONTEORA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 236 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 47% below that benchmark.

ONTEORA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,157 students. REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 75%; the rest reads as 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.8%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Ulster County put the typical household earns roughly $86,271 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ulster County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students), of which REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

ONTEORA HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. REGINALD BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 303 (now 236). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 11% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 today.

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