New York State School for the Blind operates 1 public schools serving 54 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New York. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Genesee County.
and 64.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.9% White, 23.5% African American, 11.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
New York State School for the Blind accounts for 94.4% of all New York State School for the Blind student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of New York State School for the Blind a distant remainder — means New York State School for the Blind-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
New York State School for the Blind reports 93.1% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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.
New York State School for the Blind chronic absenteeism rate is 64.7% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to New York State School for the Blind's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in New York State School for the Blind?
New York State School for the Blind has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 54 students.
What is the demographic composition of New York State School for the Blind?
New York State School for the Blind students are 56.9% White, 23.5% African American, 11.8% Hispanic or Latino, 3.9% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.