TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 73 COUNTY RTE 11A, in CRARYVILLE, New York, TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary campus that teaches 503 students (grades pre-K through 6), part of TACONIC HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

TACONIC HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 974 students. TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Columbia County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.5%, the actual is 48.7%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Columbia County shows median household income runs about $81,528, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Columbia County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,006 students), TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 39.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 29%, going from 706 students in 2018 to 503 in 2025.

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