TOWNSEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

TOWNSEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of cozy scale in WALTON, New York, one of the schools within WALTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 348 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 21% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

WALTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 805 students. TOWNSEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, TOWNSEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, TOWNSEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.4%; actual is 30.5%, a gap of -25.9 points.

Across the wider county, Delaware County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,337, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Delaware County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,307 students), TOWNSEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WALTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TOWNSEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TOWNSEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 27%, going from 476 students in 2018 to 348 in 2025.

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