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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5

Poestenkill Elementary School, Poestenkill, NY

CEP schoolPoestenkill Elementary School is a public elementary school in Poestenkill, part of Averill Park Central School District. It enrolled 334 students in 2024-25, with 15.9 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "POESTENKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
334
Teachers (FTE)
21.0
Students per teacher
15.9
Grades
K to 5

This school's ratio is 1.2 higher than the district figure of 14.7. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.9
District14.7
New York11.4
United States15.3

School details

Address
1 School Rd, Poestenkill, NY 12140
Phone
(518)674-7125
District
Averill Park Central School District
County
Rensselaer County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID
360001600113
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
81
Reduced-price lunch
2
Free or reduced-price lunch
8324.9% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Averill Park Central School District

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.