DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an intimate elementary-level community in DELEVAN, New York, part of YORKSHIRE-PIONEER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 337 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.
Within YORKSHIRE-PIONEER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 2,137 students, DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 61% of students at DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cattaraugus County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 43.6%, a residual of -8.8 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Cattaraugus County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $59,540 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 31 public schools in Cattaraugus County (combined enrollment of about 11,228 students).
Nearest neighbor: PIONEER MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 2.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.3%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Over the past 7-year window. DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 24% since 2018, when it stood at 444 (now 337). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.
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