YORK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

YORK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy K-5 school in RETSOF, New York, operated by YORK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 275 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

YORK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by YORK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 618 students overall.

On demographics, YORK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. Compared to Livingston County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, YORK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.2%; actual is 34.3%, a gap of -22.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Livingston County put median household earnings sit near $74,001, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Livingston County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,217 students), of which YORK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is YORK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around YORK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, YORK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at YORK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 25%, going from 365 students in 2018 to 275 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 in 2025.

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