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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Dryden Elementary School

Dryden, New York

NCES ID
360933003423
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Dryden Elementary School is a public primary school in Dryden, New York, run by Dryden Central School District. It enrols 486 students — the 38978th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

486students

38978th nationally, tied with 144

Teachers

62.0FTE

8957th nationally, tied with 373

Students per teacher

7.8students

3746th nationally, tied with 141

Free or reduced-price lunch

48.4%percent

52124th nationally, tied with 100

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Dryden Central School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Dryden Elementary School486 students
  2. 2Dryden High School362 students
  3. 3Dryden Middle School275 students
  4. 4Cassavant Elementary School81 students
  5. 5Freeville Elementary School78 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: New York median across 4,847 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+7.3%
  • Teachers+67.6%
  • Students per teacher−32.2%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−17.0%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.