RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL

RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL, a tight-knit K-5 school in HORSEHEADS, New York, overseen by HORSEHEADS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 369 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.

HORSEHEADS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,703 students. RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). The remainder breaks down as 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Chemung County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Chemung County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.2%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Chemung County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,716 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Chemung County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,788 students), of which RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 57.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL has contracted 12%, going from 418 students in 2018 to 369 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.