WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in WATKINS GLEN, New York, WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, run under WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 460 students across grades pre-K through 6.

WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 879 students; WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Schuyler County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 59.2%; this one comes in at 36.0%, -23.2 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Schuyler County) reports that median household earnings sit near $67,663, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Schuyler County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,801 students), of which WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.8%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 564 (now 460). Class-load math has fell: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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