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About Corning
City in New York, United StatesCorning is a city in Steuben County, New York, United States, on the Chemung River. The population was 10,551 at the 2020 census. It is named for Erastus Corning, an Albany financier and railroad executive who was an investor in the company that developed the community. The city is best known as the headquarters of Fortune 500 company Corning Incorporated, formerly Corning Glass Works, a manufacturer of glass and ceramic products for industrial, scientific and technical uses. Corning is roughly equidistant from New York City and Toronto, being about 220 miles (350 km) from both.
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The public schools Corning’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 78% of New York’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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