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Enrollment
566
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363147004209
COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
35 HOLLYBROOK DR, WILLIAMSVILLE, NY 14221 · (716) 626-9860 · Erie County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL566 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
11.6:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
84 students
DISTRICT 22% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 126 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 112 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 10% smaller than its 4th grade class (97).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
81.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
79.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 74.0% | 87.0% |
% 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
80.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 →
Schools most like COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (80.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 566 | 14.8% | 80.2% |
| PS 59 BEEKMAN HILL INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK | 531 | 13.0% | 81.2% |
| HARBOR HILL SCHOOL GREENVALE | 582 | 12.7% | 76.0% |
| NASSAKEAG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST SETAUKET | 551 | 8.5% | 77.8% |
| EAST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROSLYN HEIGHTS | 552 | 20.8% | 80.0% |
| SKANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLIFTON PARK | 524 | 18.7% | 75.7% |
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 COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.2% | #167 of 2,335 | #3 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #392 of 2,342 ▼ 225 | #9 of 115 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #241 of 2,343 ▼ 49 | #1 of 115 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 566 | #580 of 2,585 | #35 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #1,102 of 2,338 | #75 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.5% | #775 of 2,388 | #41 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.8% | #2,346 of 2,534 | #111 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.8% | #296 of 606 | #26 of 43 |
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
566
+48 (+9%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 696
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 566 | 48.8 | 11.6:1 | 15% (84) |
| 2023-24 | 580 | 49.8 | 11.6:1 | 14% (84) |
| 2022-23 | 545 | 47.8 | 11.4:1 | 14% (78) |
| 2020-21 | 518 | 43 | 12.1:1 | 13% (66) |
| 2017-18 | 520 | 41.6 | 12.5:1 | 10% (54) |
| 2015-16 | 533 | 36 | 14.8:1 | 12% (62) |
| 2010-11 | 609 | 46 | 13.2:1 | 11% (70) |
| 2000-01 | 820 | 53 | 15.5:1 | 4% (31) |
| 1990-91 | 696 | 40 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the public schools in WILLIAMSVILLE, New York. It is a medium-sized elementary school. It serves 566 students in pre-K through 4. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students.
WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 13 schools with a combined 9,598 students. COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 57% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 29% Asian, 8% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. In Erie County overall, about 74% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 58% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 48.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 11.6:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. About 15% of students, or 84, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Erie County average 51%.
The allk12 Grade for COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is A. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 89% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 80.2% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 69.5%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Erie County show that the median household income is $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, MAPLE EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 1.0 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on average proficiency.
COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment at COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL climbed 9% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 518 to 566 students.
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Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,307 students
- WILLIAMSVILLE EAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 940 students
- TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 912 students
- WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 796 students
- MILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 790 students
- MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 670 students
Other schools in WILLIAMSVILLE
- WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,307 students
- WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 796 students
- MILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 790 students
- MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 670 students
- HEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 661 students
- HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 648 students
Nearby schools
- MAPLE EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 597
- WILLIAMSVILLE EAST HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 940
- MILL MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 790
- WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 796
- TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 912
- MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 670
Frequently asked questions
About COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 566 students in grades PK-04.
Is COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 57% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 29% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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