CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier elementary school in CHEEKTOWAGA, New York, part of CLEVELAND HILL UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 661 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 49% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

CLEVELAND HILL UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,364 students; CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 30% Black, 15% Asian, 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.0%; this one delivers 43.9%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Erie County put median household income runs about $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CLEVELAND HILL HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has climbed 9%, going from 605 students in 2018 to 661 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 4% to 15%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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