SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL

SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL operates as a small elementary-level community in BEACON, New York, overseen by BEACON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 244 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL sits 45% below that benchmark.

SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by BEACON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 2,580 students overall.

In terms of who attends, SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL lists that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Hispanic, 14% Black, 14% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.1%.

Across the wider county, Dutchess County reports that the typical household earns roughly $99,478 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Dutchess County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,885 students), of which SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL is one.

SARGENT SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL has declined 32%, going from 359 students in 2018 to 244 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 24% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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