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SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in TURIN, New York, SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary-level community, run under SOUTH LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 452 students across grades pre-K through 4.
Within SOUTH LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,035 students, SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Lewis County's rate of about 45%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.5%; this one delivers 47.6%.
Across the wider county, census data for Lewis County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,182 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lewis County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,082 students), SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is SOUTH LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 61.2%.
SOUTH LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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