Enrollment
653
Combined
DISTRICT 507 · STATE 544
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360396000155
BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL
1628 QUAKER RD, BARKER, NY 14012 · (716) 795-3201 · Niagara County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL653 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 74% of New York public K-12 schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 8.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
268 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 6% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 6% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 49 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 47 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 45 | 7% |
| Grade 9 | 56 | 9% |
| Grade 10 | 47 | 7% |
| Grade 11 | 50 | 8% |
| Grade 12 | 51 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (45).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
56.3%
NY avg 58.3% . -10.4pp since 2023
Math
94.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +16.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.3% | 94.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.7% | 77.7% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
63.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL
BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL's state test result (63.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL this school | 653 | 41.0% | 63.3% |
| TAMARAC MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL TROY | 576 | 37.3% | 51.3% |
| GENESEE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL BELMONT | 594 | 44.3% | 54.7% |
| LISBON CENTRAL SCHOOL LISBON | 540 | 40.9% | 58.1% |
| NEW YORK MILLS SCHOOL NEW YORK MILLS | 521 | 39.0% | 58.7% |
| BELLEVILLE HENDERSON CENTRAL SCHOOL BELLEVILLE | 491 | 45.6% | 49.4% |
Matched among New York K-12 schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.3% | #17 of 101 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #5 of 101 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #44 of 101 ▼ 27 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 653 | #28 of 192 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #115 of 146 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.9% | #85 of 152 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.0% | #107 of 136 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +84.5% | #5 of 59 |
Ranked against other public K-12 schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
653
+318 (+95%) vs 2020
+35% since 1990-91, when it was 484
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 653 | 60.3 | 10.8:1 | 41% (268) |
| 2023-24 | 296 | 28.7 | 10.3:1 | 40% (118) |
| 2022-23 | 292 | 30.5 | 9.6:1 | 39% (113) |
| 2020-21 | 335 | 30 | 11.2:1 | 47% (159) |
| 2017-18 | 354 | 27 | 13.1:1 | 46% (164) |
| 2015-16 | 365 | 28 | 13.0:1 | 47% (172) |
| 2010-11 | 337 | 32 | 10.5:1 | 43% (146) |
| 2000-01 | 344 | 27 | 12.7:1 | 22% (74) |
| 1990-91 | 484 | 46 | 10.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL.
About BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL
BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL is a public school serving multiple grade levels run by BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in BARKER, New York. Federal data show 653 students enrolled in pre-K through 12 in 2024-25. On average, combined schools in New York enroll around 544, and this school is 20% bigger than that mark.
BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 2 schools; together they serve 1,013 students.
Of every 100 students at BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL, about 85 are White. Smaller groups are 8% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put Niagara County at about 83% White, close to the school's figure. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 27%.
Its ratio of 10.8:1 is based on 60.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Combined schools in New York have an average ratio of 8.7:1. In all, 41% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL lands at B+, ahead of 74% of New York public K-12 schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 59.9% for BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL. The school posts 63.3%, 3.4 points above the prediction.
The county, Niagara County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $69,633 a year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL, Niagara County has 51 public schools.
BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL's nearest public school is PRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (less than a tenth of a mile). The count of other public schools within ten miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL places 3rd out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Rural: Distant.
The school counted 335 students in 2020-21 and 653 in 2024-25. A shift in the grades offered could account for part of the difference.
This page is set up for the BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Niagara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
210,721
Census ACS
Median income
$69,633
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
26,388 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 360 students
Nearby schools
- PRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 360
- NEWFANE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER7.6 mi · 55
- NEWFANE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL7.7 mi · 393
- NEWFANE MIDDLE SCHOOL7.9 mi · 363
- NEWFANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.2 mi · 467
- L A WEBBER MIDDLE-HIGH SCHOOL8.4 mi · 238
Frequently asked questions
About BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOLHow many students attend BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL?
BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL enrolls approximately 653 students in grades PK-12.
What grades does BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL serve?
BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL serves grades PK-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL is approximately 10.8:1 (60 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL?
At BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 85% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL in?
BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL is part of BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.