ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as an average-sized elementary campus in WEST SENECA, New York, part of WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 509 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 9 schools in WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (5,870 students total), ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). The remainder breaks down as 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 28% of students at ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify 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 noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.5%, the actual is 58.0%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Erie County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 11%, going from 573 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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