# WALDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361968001804`
- **School name**: WALDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: WALDEN, NY 12586
- **Address**: 75 ORCHARD ST
- **District**: VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY) (LEAID `3619680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.55934, -74.19089
- **Phone**: (845)457-2400

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 447
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 40.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 2
  - 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% (48 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.2% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.1% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.3% (82 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.9%
- **Black/African American**: 3.5%
- **Asian**: 7.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 51.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.6% — 66 students
- **English Learners**: 2.8% — 12 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,058
- **Federal share**: $2,019
- **State + local share**: $29,039
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 424
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,431,879
- **Federal share**: 6.6%
- **State share**: 38.4%
- **Local share**: 55.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $18,001,219

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $63,095
- **Poverty rate**: 19.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.2%
- **Unemployment**: 4.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,591
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.1 miles (NEPERA CHEMICAL CO INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 10.09 miles (DIAMOND CANDLE FACTORY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WALDEN VILLAGE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-05

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.78491 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.18%)
- **VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 0.42% (this school: 1.18%)
- **JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.18%)
- **OSTRANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.18%)
- **WALLKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.18%)

### ela proficiency
- **VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 39% (this school: 36%)
- **JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 45% (this school: 36%)
- **OSTRANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 44% (this school: 36%)
- **EAST COLDENHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 50% (this school: 36%)
- **MEADOW HILL SCHOOL** — 6.0 mi away, 40% (this school: 36%)

### math proficiency
- **BEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 57% (this school: 49%)
- **VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 71.33% (this school: 49%)
- **JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 76% (this school: 49%)
- **OSTRANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 58.5% (this school: 49%)
- **MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 60% (this school: 49%)

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