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Alumni: what's one memory from CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
448
Elementary
DISTRICT 382 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361767001580
CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
28 HARDING AVE, LOCKPORT, NY 14094 · (716) 478-4402 · Niagara County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL448 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
11.1:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
256 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 92 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 11% larger than its 4th grade class (83).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→EMMET BELKNAP INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL→AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
32.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
39.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 22.0% | 37.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
32.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% 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 CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (32.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 448 | 57.1% | 32.5% |
| JOHN KENNEDY SCHOOL BATAVIA | 499 | 57.7% | 54.9% |
| WILLIAM H SEWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUBURN | 491 | 58.9% | 37.5% |
| HARMONY HILL SCHOOL COHOES | 384 | 59.9% | 37.4% |
| JACKSON SCHOOL BATAVIA | 397 | 55.9% | N/A |
| ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 392 | 58.9% | 41.8% |
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 CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Niagara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.5% | #1,938 of 2,335 | #18 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,886 of 2,342 ▼ 84 | #16 of 23 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #2,074 of 2,343 ▲ 39 | #19 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 448 | #1,082 of 2,585 | #10 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #890 of 2,338 | #7 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.0% | #1,059 of 2,388 | #11 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.1% | #1,214 of 2,534 | #12 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.9% | #1,547 of 1,757 | #16 of 22 |
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
448
+57 (+15%) vs 2020
+53% since 1990-91, when it was 293
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 448 | 40.4 | 11.1:1 | 57% (256) |
| 2023-24 | 445 | 32.6 | 13.7:1 | 67% (298) |
| 2022-23 | 416 | 33.2 | 12.5:1 | 67% (279) |
| 2020-21 | 391 | 33 | 11.8:1 | 61% (238) |
| 2017-18 | 466 | 37 | 12.6:1 | 55% (258) |
| 2015-16 | 513 | 36 | 14.3:1 | 65% (334) |
| 2010-11 | 544 | 42 | 12.9:1 | 61% (333) |
| 2000-01 | 420 | 28 | 15.0:1 | 37% (154) |
| 1990-91 | 293 | 15 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in LOCKPORT, New York, under LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 4, with 448 students enrolled.
LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 4,064 students in its 7 schools, and CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
At 65%, White students outnumber all other groups at CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL combined. After that, the student body is 14% Hispanic, 10% Black, and 10% multiracial. Among all residents of Niagara County, the White share is about 83%. CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 54%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 40.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 11.1 students for each one. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. About 57% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. Public schools in Niagara County average 49%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 21.5 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in New York.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Niagara County show that median household income is about $69,633, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 51 public schools in Niagara County, which together enroll about 26,388 students.
Of nearby public schools, LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is 6. Among its closest neighbors with test data, CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 8th of 9 on proficiency.
Locale: Town: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in a town close to an urbanized area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count climbed from 391 to 448.
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Niagara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
210,721
Census ACS
Median income
$69,633
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
26,388 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,377 students
- AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 587 students
- EMMET BELKNAP INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 571 students
- ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 392 students
- GEORGE SOUTHARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 363 students
- ANNA MERRITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 326 students
Other schools in LOCKPORT
- LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,377 students
- STARPOINT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 929 students
- STARPOINT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 726 students
- REGAN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 631 students
- AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 587 students
- FRICANO PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 584 students
Nearby schools
- LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,377
- EMMET BELKNAP INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 571
- GEORGE SOUTHARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 363
- ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 392
- ANNA MERRITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 326
- AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 587
Frequently asked questions
About CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 448 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many teachers does CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1:1.
What is the student diversity at CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 65% White, 14% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Niagara County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.