# AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/african-road-elementary-school-vestal

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362961003984`
- **School name**: AFRICAN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: VESTAL, NY 13850
- **Address**: 600 S BENITA BLVD
- **District**: VESTAL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3629610`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 42.08790, -76.01390
- **Phone**: (607)757-2311

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 325
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 30.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 4
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.0% (29 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 14.4% (44 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 2.8%
- **Black/African American**: 32.8%
- **Asian**: 6.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 52.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 33.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.8% — 30 students
- **English Learners**: 4.9% — 15 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,467
- **Federal share**: $1,083
- **State + local share**: $22,384
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 306
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $26,602,744
- **Federal share**: 9.6%
- **State share**: 36.7%
- **Local share**: 53.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,677,900

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $84,792
- **Poverty rate**: 10.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 41.1%
- **Unemployment**: 2.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,072
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.6 miles (ROBINTECH INC NATIONAL PIPE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 27
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.86 miles (ENDICOTT FORGING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VESTAL CONSOLIDATED W.D. #1
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 60% (this school: 57%)
- **HOMER BRINK SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 59% (this school: 57%)

### math proficiency
- **VESTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 76.8% (this school: 72%)
- **MAINE-ENDWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 74.33% (this school: 72%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/african-road-elementary-school-vestal
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/african-road-elementary-school-vestal/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/african-road-elementary-school-vestal/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/african-road-elementary-school-vestal/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/african-road-elementary-school-vestal/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/african-road-elementary-school-vestal/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/african-road-elementary-school-vestal/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/african-road-elementary-school-vestal/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/african-road-elementary-school-vestal/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/african-road-elementary-school-vestal/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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