WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION

Located at 210 NORTHERN BLVD, in AMSTERDAM, New York, WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION is a moderately sized elementary school that works with 465 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under AMSTERDAM CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AMSTERDAM CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,663 students; WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION is among them.

In terms of who attends, WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION records that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 39% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 34.5%, a residual of -16.6 points.

In the broader community, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,943 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Montgomery County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,225 students), WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is AMSTERDAM HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION has fell 5%, going from 491 students in 2018 to 465 in 2025. The White share of enrollment grew from 46% to 50% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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