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Enrollment
475
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000323
DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18
750 WEST AVE, BUFFALO, NY 14215 · (716) 816-3160 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL475 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.2:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
457 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 | 36 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 52 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 12% larger than its 8th grade class (52).
Student demographics
71%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
24.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
13.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 13.5% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 13.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18
DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18's state test result (18.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 this school | 475 | 96.2% | 18.2% |
| DAVID N DINKINS SCHOOL JAMAICA | 446 | 89.9% | 53.3% |
| HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY BUFFALO | 550 | 97.8% | 11.1% |
| WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 590 | 85.6% | 32.9% |
| DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 424 | 84.9% | 24.6% |
| HARVEY AUSTIN SCHOOL #97 BUFFALO | 487 | 95.3% | 13.9% |
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 DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.2% | #2,264 of 2,335 | #96 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.5% | #2,311 of 2,342 ▼ 12 | #108 of 115 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #2,228 of 2,343 ▼ 177 | #87 of 115 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 475 | #943 of 2,585 | #58 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #509 of 2,338 | #28 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #194 of 2,388 | #17 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.2% | #135 of 2,534 | #8 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.2% | #1,523 of 1,757 | #56 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
475
+20 (+4%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 608
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 475 | 46.5 | 10.2:1 | 96% (457) |
| 2023-24 | 449 | 45.1 | 9.9:1 | 94% (422) |
| 2022-23 | 443 | 45 | 9.8:1 | 95% (420) |
| 2020-21 | 455 | 40 | 11.4:1 | 90% (411) |
| 2017-18 | 496 | 46.1 | 10.8:1 | 84% (419) |
| 2015-16 | 512 | 45 | 11.4:1 | 85% (434) |
| 2010-11 | 457 | 46 | 9.9:1 | 88% (402) |
| 2000-01 | 656 | 41 | 16.0:1 | 98% (646) |
| 1990-91 | 608 | 37 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18.
About DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18
DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 is one of the public schools in BUFFALO, New York. It is a medium-sized elementary school. The school counts 475 students across pre-K through 8.
Within BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 is one of 61 schools. The district enrolls 29,425 students.
Asian students form the largest group at DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18, 36% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 33% Black, 23% Hispanic, 4% White, and 3% multiracial. Among people living in Erie County, the Asian share is about 5%. The chance that two students picked at random at DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 71%.
A ratio of 10.2:1 comes from the school's 46.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 96% in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Erie County is 51%.
DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 is graded F by allk12, scoring above 4% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 is among the bottom 10% of schools in New York. Predicted: 39.6%. Actual: 18.2%.
Federal survey data for Erie County show that median household income is about $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 is among the 226 public schools in Erie County.
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 is 6th of 9 on proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 had 455 students in 2020-21 and 475 in 2024-25, a 4% rise. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.4:1 in 2020-21 to 10.2:1 in 2024-25.
The DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 community page is open for posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
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- 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
Nearby schools
- FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #300.5 mi · 614
- WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 498
- NATIVE AMERICAN MAGNET0.7 mi · 367
- D'YOUVILLE-PORTER CAMPUS0.7 mi · 521
- INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE)0.7 mi · 640
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL0.8 mi · 933
Frequently asked questions
About DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18How many students attend DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18?
DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 enrolls approximately 475 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 serve?
DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18?
Approximately 10.2:1 students per teacher at DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18.
What is the student diversity at DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18?
Student demographics at DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 are roughly 4% White, 23% Hispanic, 33% Black, 36% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 public or private?
DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 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.