THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL

THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL is one of the modestly sized elementary-level communitys in BINGHAMTON, New York, run under BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 267 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL sits 40% below that benchmark.

THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL is one of 10 schools operated by BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 4,531 students overall.

On the student-mix side, THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL logs that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 22% Black, 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Broome County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.5%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Broome County indicate median household earnings sit near $62,616, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Broome County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,594 students), THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.4%.

THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 304 students in 2018 compared to 267 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 51% to 46% over that span.

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