WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a compact elementary campus in WEST SAND LAKE, New York, one of the schools within AVERILL PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 354 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 20% smaller than that benchmark.

AVERILL PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,543 students. WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 25% of students at WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Rensselaer County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.8%, the actual is 59.6%, a residual of -6.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Rensselaer County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,915 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 42 public schools in Rensselaer County (combined enrollment of about 19,274 students).

The closest other public school is AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 1.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WEST SAND LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 68.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 369 students in 2018 compared to 354 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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