WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a close-knit elementary campus in WESTMORELAND, New York, WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 230 students from grades 3 through 6, one of the schools within WESTMORELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 48% leaner than that benchmark.

WESTMORELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 775 students. WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Oneida County's rate of about 47%.

After controlling for student poverty, WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.6%, the actual is 70.6%, a residual of +5.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Oneida County shows median household income runs about $70,154, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Oneida County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students), WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DEFOREST A HILL PRIMARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 65.4%.

WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 25%, going from 306 students in 2018 to 230 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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