SAUQUOIT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in SAUQUOIT, New York, SAUQUOIT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment K-5 school, part of SAUQUOIT VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 327 students across grades K through 4. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so SAUQUOIT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 26% below that benchmark.

SAUQUOIT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by SAUQUOIT VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 883 students overall.

On demographics, SAUQUOIT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Oneida County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Oneida County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SAUQUOIT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.3%; this one delivers 53.6%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Oneida County shows median household income runs about $70,154, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oneida County runs 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students), of which SAUQUOIT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SAUQUOIT VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SAUQUOIT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.8%.

SAUQUOIT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 393 students in 2018 compared to 327 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 91% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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