BOSTON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BOSTON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy elementary campus in HAMBURG, New York, part of HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 212 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,309 students. BOSTON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, BOSTON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BOSTON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.8%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of -8.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Erie County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), BOSTON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CHARLOTTE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around BOSTON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BOSTON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.5%.

BOSTON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 17%: 256 students in 2018 compared to 212 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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