SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 124 SALISBURY ST, in SANDY CREEK, New York, SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary-level community that hosts 379 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by SANDY CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by SANDY CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that hosts 784 students overall.

Looking at the student body, SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of -13.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Oswego County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,183 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 37 public schools in Oswego County (combined enrollment of about 17,529 students).

Nearest neighbor: SANDY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SANDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 10%, going from 422 students in 2018 to 379 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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