SKANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 970 RT 146, in CLIFTON PARK, New York, SKANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary-level community that teaches 524 students (grades K through 5), part of SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 12 schools and 9,348 students, SKANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, SKANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SKANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 19% of students at SKANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Saratoga County's rate of about 30%.

After controlling for student poverty, SKANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.1%, the actual is 75.7%, a residual of +7.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Saratoga County shows the typical household earns roughly $100,787 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Saratoga County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,097 students), SKANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: TESAGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SKANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 75.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 5%: 549 students in 2018 compared to 524 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share expanded from 11% to 23%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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