Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District operates 2 public schools serving 121 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New York. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Ulster County.
The funding mix is 25.7% local, 10.4% state, and 63.8% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs.
and 33.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Kiryas Joel Village School accounts for 91.0% of all Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District a distant remainder — means Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District reports 79.7% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District chronic absenteeism rate is 33.9% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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