WAYNE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in ONTARIO CENTER, New York, WAYNE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a modestly sized K-5 school, one of the schools within WAYNE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 305 students across grades 3 through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 31% below the state mean of about 443.

WAYNE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,031 students. WAYNE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, WAYNE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WAYNE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wayne County (around 47%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WAYNE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.9%, the actual is 54.9%, a residual of -6.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Wayne County shows median household earnings sit near $74,506, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WAYNE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 37 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 13,068 students).

Nearest neighbor: WAYNE CENTRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WAYNE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 59.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. WAYNE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 335 (now 305).

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