Public school / Primary
Fall Creek Elementary School
Ithaca, New York
- NCES ID
- 361557001337
- District
- Ithaca City School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Fall Creek Elementary School is a public primary school in Ithaca, New York, run by Ithaca City School District. It enrols 232 students — the 74455th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
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
232
Teachers
22.0
Students per teacher
10.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
39.7%
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.
Within Ithaca City 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.
- 1Ithaca Senior High School1,341 students
- 2Boynton Middle School526 students
- 3Dewitt Middle School478 students
- 4Northeast School385 students
- 5South Hill School380 students
- 6Belle Sherman School307 students
- 7Cayuga Heights Elementary School303 students
- 8Caroline Elementary School293 students
- Enrollment−48.8%
- Teachers−40.5%
- Students per teacher−8.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−31.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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