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Enrollment
541
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585003478
DISCOVERY SCHOOL
911 ABBOTT RD, BUFFALO, NY 14220 · (716) 816-4922 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL541 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
306 students
DISTRICT 88% · 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 | 46 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 50 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 47 | 9% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (47).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
39.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
46.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 46.3% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
39.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 DISCOVERY SCHOOL
DISCOVERY SCHOOL's state test result (39.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DISCOVERY SCHOOL this school | 541 | 56.6% | 39.1% |
| TURNPIKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TROY | 542 | 53.7% | N/A |
| JOHN KENNEDY SCHOOL BATAVIA | 499 | 57.7% | 54.9% |
| CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 448 | 57.1% | 32.5% |
| LOUIS V DENTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROME | 598 | 58.5% | 19.8% |
| CATSKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CATSKILL | 550 | 54.4% | 33.0% |
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 DISCOVERY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.1% | #1,668 of 2,335 | #68 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #1,588 of 2,342 ▼ 176 | #63 of 115 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,832 of 2,343 ▼ 268 | #73 of 115 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 541 | #668 of 2,585 | #40 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #1,181 of 2,338 | #79 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.2% | #658 of 2,388 | #37 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.6% | #1,224 of 2,534 | #52 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.0% | #1,088 of 1,757 | #40 of 68 |
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
541
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
+940% since 2000-01, when it was 52
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 541 | 45.9 | 11.8:1 | 57% (306) |
| 2023-24 | 545 | 46.3 | 11.8:1 | 51% (279) |
| 2022-23 | 543 | 48.9 | 11.1:1 | 48% (261) |
| 2020-21 | 545 | 43 | 12.7:1 | 42% (227) |
| 2017-18 | 608 | 36 | 16.9:1 | 35% (214) |
| 2015-16 | 626 | 36 | 17.4:1 | 37% (233) |
| 2010-11 | 578 | 40 | 14.4:1 | 42% (241) |
| 2000-01 | 52 | 3 | 17.3:1 | 46% (24) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DISCOVERY SCHOOL.
About DISCOVERY SCHOOL
DISCOVERY SCHOOL is an elementary school in BUFFALO, New York, reachable at (716) 816-4922. The school enrolls 541 students in pre-K through 8. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 22% bigger than average.
BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT has 29,425 students in 61 schools, and DISCOVERY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
About 58% of the student body at DISCOVERY SCHOOL is White. Other groups make up 15% Hispanic, 15% Black, 8% multiracial, and 3% Asian. County-wide, 74% of Erie County residents are White. A diversity index of 61% means there is a 61% chance two randomly chosen students at DISCOVERY SCHOOL are from different groups.
Its ratio of 11.8:1 is based on 45.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. In all, 57% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, DISCOVERY SCHOOL would score about 54.2%. It scores 39.1%, 15.1 points below that figure.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Erie County show that the median household earns about $72,839 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Erie County has 226 public schools with about 122,519 students, including DISCOVERY SCHOOL.
Measured in a straight line, LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.6 miles from DISCOVERY SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. DISCOVERY SCHOOL comes in 3rd of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal data place DISCOVERY SCHOOL in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment went from 545 in 2020-21 to 541 in 2024-25, a change of 4 students.
On allk12, people connected to DISCOVERY SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
- FREDERICK OLMSTED #156High · 928 students
- MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 862 students
- SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 801 students
Other schools in BUFFALO
- CHARTER SCHOOL FOR APPLIED TECHNOLOGIESCombined · 2,260 students
- KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,235 students
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 1,120 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
Other Discovery schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Discovery. DISCOVERY SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 8.
- DiscoveryLancaster, CA · 662 students
- Discovery SchoolVERNAL, UT · 656 students
- Discovery SchoolGLENDALE, AZ · 601 students
- Discovery SchoolBRIGHAM CITY, UT · 448 students
- Discovery SchoolMurfreesboro, TN · 391 students
Nearby schools
- LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 638
- WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 392
- WINCHESTER-POTTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 422
- GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOL1.0 mi · 878
- SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 801
- ERIE 1 BOCES1.4 mi · 488
Frequently asked questions
About DISCOVERY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at DISCOVERY SCHOOL?
DISCOVERY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 541 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does DISCOVERY SCHOOL serve?
DISCOVERY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DISCOVERY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DISCOVERY SCHOOL is approximately 11.8:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at DISCOVERY SCHOOL?
At DISCOVERY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 58% White, 15% Hispanic, 15% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is DISCOVERY SCHOOL public or private?
DISCOVERY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.