# CRAIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362088002955`
- **School name**: CRAIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: SCHENECTADY, NY 12309
- **Address**: 2566 BALLTOWN RD
- **District**: NISKAYUNA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3620880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 42.83160, -73.89040
- **Phone**: (518)377-0156

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 377
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 17.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - 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 11.4% (44 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 9.2% (37 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 7.4%
- **Black/African American**: 20.3%
- **Asian**: 6.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 59.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 5.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 20.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.4% — 34 students
- **English Learners**: 7.9% — 32 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,093
- **Federal share**: $789
- **State + local share**: $18,304
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 403
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,776,912
- **Federal share**: 8.5%
- **State share**: 31.0%
- **Local share**: 60.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,822,238

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $170,469
- **Poverty rate**: 0.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 84.1%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.3 miles (MALTA ROCKET FUEL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.76 miles (BIG N RETAIL MAXON REALTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SCHENECTADY CITY WATER WORKS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.47193 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 68% (this school: 50%)
- **HILLSIDE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 63% (this school: 50%)
- **ROSENDALE SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 71% (this school: 50%)
- **PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 53% (this school: 50%)
- **TESAGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 71% (this school: 50%)

### math proficiency
- **VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 83% (this school: 60%)
- **HILLSIDE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 68% (this school: 60%)
- **GLENCLIFF SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 67% (this school: 60%)
- **ROSENDALE SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 77% (this school: 60%)
- **PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 69% (this school: 60%)

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