VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a modestly sized elementary school in SUFFERN, New York, VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 325 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 4,170 students, VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 34% White, 12% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 34% of students at VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Rockland County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 62.5%; this one comes in at 39.9%, -22.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Rockland County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,959 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Rockland County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students), VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SUFFERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 346 (now 325). White enrollment moved from 58% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2024.

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