VALLEY COTTAGE SCHOOL

VALLEY COTTAGE SCHOOL operates as an average-sized elementary campus in VALLEY COTTAGE, New York, one of the schools within NYACK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 384 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 5 schools in NYACK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,820 students total), VALLEY COTTAGE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, VALLEY COTTAGE SCHOOL shows that 37% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 34% White, 17% Black, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting VALLEY COTTAGE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Rockland County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, VALLEY COTTAGE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.4%, the actual is 75.8%, a residual of +10.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Rockland County shows median household income runs about $109,959, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Rockland County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students), VALLEY COTTAGE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NYACK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VALLEY COTTAGE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, VALLEY COTTAGE SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 442 students in 2018 compared to 384 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 26% to 37% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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