TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 41 5TH AVE, in TIOGA CENTER, New York, TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate K-5 school that caters to 323 students (grades pre-K through 4), run under TIOGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 27% below typical.

TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by TIOGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 875 students overall.

In terms of who attends, TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Compared to Tioga County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.7%, the actual is 64.1%, a residual of +6.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Tioga County indicate median household income runs about $72,739, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Tioga County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,112 students), TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

TIOGA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 71.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 385 (now 323). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.