BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in BLASDELL, New York, BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, part of FRONTIER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 498 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within FRONTIER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 4,475 students, BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.3%, the actual is 48.0%, a residual of -8.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Erie County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

TRUMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 493 (now 498). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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