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AKRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About AKRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
AKRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary campus in AKRON, New York, one of the schools within AKRON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school hosts 561 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 27% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.
Across the 3 schools in AKRON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,210 students total), AKRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, AKRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest looks like 15% Native American, 5% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, AKRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
With demographic context factored in, AKRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.4%; this one delivers 64.8%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,839, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. AKRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).
Nearest neighbor: AKRON HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, AKRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.2%.
AKRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.
Five-year trend. AKRON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 572 (now 561). Class-load math has fell: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.
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