WEST LEYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WEST LEYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of rural-scale scale in WEST LEYDEN, New York, part of ADIRONDACK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 123 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 72% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 4 schools in ADIRONDACK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,169 students total), WEST LEYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, WEST LEYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 2% multiracial. Compared to Lewis County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, WEST LEYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 43% of students at WEST LEYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEST LEYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 59.1%; WEST LEYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 40.2%, -19.0 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lewis County put the typical household earns roughly $68,182 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. WEST LEYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 13 public schools in Lewis County (combined enrollment of about 4,082 students).

ADIRONDACK MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.9 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WEST LEYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. WEST LEYDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 139 (now 123). Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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