WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in WHITESBORO, New York, WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate elementary-level community, run under WHITESBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 335 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within WHITESBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 2,898 students, WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that nearly all students (81%) are White. The remainder comes out to 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Oneida County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Oneida County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.0%; WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 41.2%, -19.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Oneida County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,154, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 72 public schools in Oneida County (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students).

HARTS HILL SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 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), WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.2%.

WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 406 students in 2018 compared to 335 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 81% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.