TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 20 TOLEMAN RD, in WASHINGTONVILLE, New York, TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school that enrolls 522 students (grades K through 5), overseen by WASHINGTONVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within WASHINGTONVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 3,874 students, TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 36% Hispanic, 9% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.8%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of -14.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,178 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Orange County runs 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), of which TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WASHINGTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TAFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 28%, going from 722 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 60% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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