ROUSES POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a tight-knit elementary-level community in ROUSES POINT, New York, ROUSES POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 259 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within NORTHEASTERN CLINTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 42% smaller than typical.

ROUSES POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by NORTHEASTERN CLINTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 1,220 students overall.

Looking at the student body, ROUSES POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 2% Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ROUSES POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROUSES POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Clinton County) records that median household earnings sit near $71,224, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Clinton County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,729 students), of which ROUSES POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

NORTHEASTERN CLINTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROUSES POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 64.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. ROUSES POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 283 (now 259).

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