WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in SCHENECTADY, New York, WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary campus, operated by SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 279 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% below the state mean of about 443.

Across the 15 schools in SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (8,948 students total), WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Asian at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 19% Black, 12% multiracial, 8% White. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.

Looking at school resources, WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Schenectady County (around 50%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.7%; actual is 19.8%, a gap of -25.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Schenectady County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,623 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 40 public schools in Schenectady County (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students).

Nearest neighbor: LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 23.7%.

WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 21%, going from 352 students in 2018 to 279 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment expanded from 24% to 36% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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