CLARENCE CENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 9600 CLARENCE CTR RD, in CLARENCE CENTER, New York, CLARENCE CENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school that hosts 406 students (grades K through 5), run under CLARENCE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 6 schools in CLARENCE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,081 students total), CLARENCE CENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CLARENCE CENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Erie County's rate of about 51%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CLARENCE CENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.7%, the actual is 62.4%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the broader community, Erie County reports that 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%. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which CLARENCE CENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

CLARENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CLARENCE CENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 79.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. CLARENCE CENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 8% since 2018, when it stood at 375 (now 406). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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