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Enrollment
612
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000316
BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL
342 CLINTON ST, BUFFALO, NY 14204 · (716) 816-4603 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL612 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
462 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 100 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 40 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 55 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 33% larger than its 8th grade class (55).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
18.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
11.4%
NY avg 57.4% . -10.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.0% | 11.4% |
| 2023-24 | 18.0% | 21.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-30.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 47% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL
BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL's state test result (17.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL this school | 612 | 75.5% | 17.1% |
| ROBERTS K-8 SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 641 | 78.9% | 16.6% |
| WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 650 | 78.9% | 24.6% |
| HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NIAGARA FALLS | 650 | 83.2% | 24.8% |
| DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 711 | 81.2% | 18.1% |
| SCHOOL 7-VIRGIL GRISSOM ROCHESTER | 486 | 81.1% | 14.9% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.1% | #2,281 of 2,335 | #101 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.4% | #2,320 of 2,342 ▼ 123 | #109 of 115 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #2,295 of 2,343 ▼ 81 | #99 of 115 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 612 | #419 of 2,585 | #23 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #346 of 2,338 | #21 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.6% | #335 of 2,388 | #23 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.5% | #885 of 2,534 | #42 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.4% | #688 of 1,757 | #23 of 68 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
612
-58 (-9%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 563
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 612 | 63.1 | 9.7:1 | 75% (462) |
| 2023-24 | 600 | 65.6 | 9.2:1 | 73% (435) |
| 2022-23 | 652 | 68.7 | 9.5:1 | 72% (469) |
| 2020-21 | 670 | 65 | 10.3:1 | 69% (460) |
| 2017-18 | 750 | 60 | 12.5:1 | 66% (498) |
| 2015-16 | 759 | 58 | 13.1:1 | 64% (482) |
| 2010-11 | 851 | 55 | 15.5:1 | 71% (605) |
| 2000-01 | 502 | 36 | 13.9:1 | 44% (219) |
| 1990-91 | 563 | 35 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL.
About BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL
BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school based in BUFFALO, New York. In all, 612 students attend the school in pre-K through 8. It has 38% more students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT includes 61 schools. Together they enroll 29,425 students.
Black students account for 49% of enrollment at BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL, more than any other group. Other students are 20% White, 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 4% Asian. By comparison, Erie County residents are about 13% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 68%.
Its ratio of 9.7:1 is based on 63.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 75%. On average, public schools in Erie County report 51%.
On the allk12 Grade, BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL lands at F, ahead of 1% of New York public elementary schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL is 47.2%. It actually posts 17.1%, which is 30.2 points lower and in the bottom 10% of New York schools.
In Erie County, median household income comes to about $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Erie County counts 226 public schools with about 122,519 students.
Of the public schools around it, BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL is closest to BUFFALO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL is 6th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL had a net loss of 58 students, or 9%.
The allk12 page for BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
- FREDERICK OLMSTED #156High · 928 students
- MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 862 students
- SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 801 students
Other schools in BUFFALO
- CHARTER SCHOOL FOR APPLIED TECHNOLOGIESCombined · 2,260 students
- KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,235 students
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 1,120 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
Nearby schools
- BUFFALO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY0.2 mi · 551
- ENTERPRISE CHARTER SCHOOL0.5 mi · 402
- REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.5 mi · 805
- BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 114
- BUFFALO SCHOOL OF CULINARY ARTS AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT0.8 mi · 436
- PS 42 OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING CENTER0.8 mi · 69
Frequently asked questions
About BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOLHow large is BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL enrolls approximately 612 students in grades PK-08.
Is BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL have?
BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL employs 63 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.7:1.
How diverse is BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL reports a student body of 20% White, 17% Hispanic, 49% Black, 4% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL in?
BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL is part of BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.