Enrollment
319
Elementary
DISTRICT 270 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360002404322
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
25 N FRANKLIN ST, CATTARAUGUS, NY 14719 · (716) 257-3436 · Cattaraugus County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL319 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of New York public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
8.6:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
153 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 44 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 16% smaller than its 4th grade class (67).
Student demographics
13%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 14% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL→CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
43.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
56.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 56.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 64.0% |
% 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
52.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 →
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CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (52.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 319 | 48.0% | 52.9% |
| TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TIOGA CENTER | 323 | 47.1% | 64.1% |
| OAKFIELD-ALABAMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OAKFIELD | 324 | 46.9% | 47.0% |
| HUDSON FALLS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL HUDSON FALLS | 311 | 49.5% | 41.3% |
| VOLNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FULTON | 306 | 46.4% | 28.9% |
| STUART M TOWNSEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE LUZERNE | 337 | 49.6% | 42.1% |
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 CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Cattaraugus County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.9% | #1,049 of 2,335 | #4 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #1,213 of 2,342 ▼ 452 | #4 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #1,633 of 2,343 ▼ 683 | #6 of 10 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 319 | #1,872 of 2,585 | #7 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.6:1 | #114 of 2,338 | #3 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.2% | #2,233 of 2,388 | #10 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.0% | #1,470 of 2,534 | #6 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.3% | #1,258 of 1,757 | #7 of 10 |
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
319
-17 (-5%) vs 2020
-14% since 2000-01, when it was 369
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 10.2:1
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 | 319 | 37.3 | 8.6:1 | 48% (153) |
| 2023-24 | 338 | 38.8 | 8.7:1 | 54% (182) |
| 2022-23 | 334 | 37.3 | 9.0:1 | 55% (184) |
| 2020-21 | 336 | 33 | 10.2:1 | 49% (163) |
| 2017-18 | 348 | 33 | 10.6:1 | 50% (174) |
| 2015-16 | 366 | 36 | 10.2:1 | 56% (205) |
| 2010-11 | 246 | 25 | 9.8:1 | 60% (147) |
| 2000-01 | 369 | 28 | 13.2:1 | 38% (140) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school in CATTARAUGUS, New York. Classes run from pre-K through 4, and the school has 319 students. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 28% smaller than average.
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 809 students in 3 schools, including CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment is 93% White. The rest of enrollment is 3% multiracial. Pick two students at random and there is a 13% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 37.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 8.6:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. About 48% of students, or 153, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Cattaraugus County average 50%.
allk12 grades CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 52.9% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 57.4%.
Cattaraugus County has about 76,145 residents, and the median household income is $59,540, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Besides CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Cattaraugus County has 30 other public schools.
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is located less than a tenth of a mile from CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds 2 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 55.5%, higher than CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 52.9%.
NCES assigns CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment at CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL declined 5% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 336 to 319 students. The ratio was 10.2:1 in 2020-21 and 8.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Cattaraugus County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
76,145
Census ACS
Median income
$59,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
31
11,228 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 256 students
- CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 234 students
- CATTARAUGUS COUNTY JAILElementary
Other schools in CATTARAUGUS
- CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 256 students
- CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 234 students
Nearby schools
- CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 234
- CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 256
- GOWANDA HIGH SCHOOL10.1 mi · 298
- GOWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL10.1 mi · 334
- GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL10.6 mi · 421
- PINE VALLEY CENTRAL JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL11.8 mi · 199
Frequently asked questions
About CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 319 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-04.
How many teachers does CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.6:1.
How diverse is CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 93% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Two or more.
Is CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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