WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in CORNING, New York, overseen by CORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 404 students in grades pre-K through 5.

CORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,354 students; WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (84%) are White. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Steuben County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.3%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the area at large, Steuben County reports that median household earnings sit near $65,887, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Steuben County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,701 students), WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CORNING-PAINTED POST HIGH 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), WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.0%.

WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 430 students in 2018 compared to 404 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 84% across the same window.

Inside the community feed, members of the WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.