COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a tight-knit primary school in LANCASTER, New York, part of LANCASTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 352 students spanning grades K through 3. That puts it 21% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

LANCASTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 5,321 students; COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (87%) are White. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.7%, the actual is 57.8%, a residual of -4.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Erie County) shows that median household income runs about $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is LANCASTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.6%.

COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 338 students in 2018 compared to 352 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.