CANAL VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in SPENCERPORT, New York, CANAL VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school, run under SPENCERPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 434 students across grades pre-K through 5.

SPENCERPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,587 students; CANAL VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, CANAL VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 79% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CANAL VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, CANAL VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.1%; this one delivers 43.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Monroe County) records that median household earnings sit near $76,382, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Monroe County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), of which CANAL VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LEO BERNABI SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CANAL VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CANAL VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 16%, going from 517 students in 2018 to 434 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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