VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a heavily attended elementary-level community in HILTON, New York, part of HILTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 972 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 119% above that benchmark.

Within HILTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 4,123 students, VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Monroe County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 63.7%; actual is 41.1%, a gap of -22.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monroe County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), of which VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MERTON WILLIAMS MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 972 (now 972). White enrollment moved from 90% to 82% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.