# VALLEY COTTAGE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362148003053`
- **School name**: VALLEY COTTAGE SCHOOL
- **Location**: VALLEY COTTAGE, NY 10989
- **Address**: 26 LAKE RD
- **District**: NYACK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3621480`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.11890, -73.94350
- **Phone**: (845)353-7280

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 384
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 26.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 3
  - 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 6.8% (26 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 11.4% (43 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**: 26.3%
- **Black/African American**: 7.3%
- **Asian**: 16.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 40.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.8%
- **Two or more races**: 8.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 28.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.7% — 63 students
- **English Learners**: 8.5% — 32 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,942
- **Federal share**: $1,144
- **State + local share**: $29,798
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 377
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $35,022,468
- **Federal share**: 8.9%
- **State share**: 19.6%
- **Local share**: 71.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $19,796,362

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $130,841
- **Poverty rate**: 4.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.2%
- **Unemployment**: 10.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,603
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.4 miles (MAGNA METALS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.47 miles (DAMIANI)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LEISURE VILLAGE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.43167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 17.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **UPPER NYACK SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 71% (this school: 69%)
- **LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.6 mi away, 72% (this school: 69%)
- **POCANTICO HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL** — 6.1 mi away, 72% (this school: 69%)
- **PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 72% (this school: 69%)
- **TODD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.8 mi away, 82% (this school: 69%)

### math proficiency
- **TODD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.8 mi away, 86% (this school: 85%)
- **BRIARCLIFF MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.9 mi away, 92.8% (this school: 85%)
- **IRVINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 7.0 mi away, 91.8% (this school: 85%)
- **DOBBS FERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 8.0 mi away, 89.4% (this school: 85%)
- **BEDFORD ROAD SCHOOL** — 8.4 mi away, 86% (this school: 85%)

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