SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of tight-knit scale in SLOATSBURG, New York, one of the schools within SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 322 students in grades K through 2. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 27% below typical.

SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,170 students; SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 30% White, 12% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Rockland County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 28% of students at SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Rockland County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Rockland County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $109,959 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Rockland County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students), SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

GEORGE GRANT MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged up 59%, going from 202 students in 2018 to 322 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 30% across the same window.

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