DRAKE SCHOOL

DRAKE SCHOOL operates as an intimate elementary school in NORTH TONAWANDA, New York, one of the schools within NORTH TONAWANDA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 242 students spanning grades K through 3. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so DRAKE SCHOOL sits 45% below that benchmark.

NORTH TONAWANDA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,126 students; DRAKE SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, DRAKE SCHOOL logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. Compared to Niagara County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting DRAKE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DRAKE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.3%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of -18.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Niagara County put the typical household earns roughly $69,633 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Niagara County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,388 students), of which DRAKE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 1.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DRAKE SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 60.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. DRAKE SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 302 (now 242). White enrollment moved from 94% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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