RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in GLASCO, New York, part of SAUGERTIES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 410 students in grades K through 6.

Within SAUGERTIES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,287 students, RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Ulster County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.3%, the actual is 48.4%, a residual of -13.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Ulster County shows median household earnings sit near $86,271, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: CAHILL SCHOOL, around 2.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 34%: 307 students in 2018 compared to 410 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 80% to 74%.

Inside the community feed, members of the RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.