Enrollment
399
High
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000307
EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY
70 W CHIPPEWA ST, BUFFALO, NY 14202 · (716) 816-3018 · Erie County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
376 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 161 | 40% |
| Grade 10 | 84 | 21% |
| Grade 11 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 12 | 62 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 22 | 6% |
Student demographics
62%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -8.0pp since 2023
Math
20.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 25.0% |
% 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
32.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY
EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY's state test result (32.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY this school | 399 | 94.2% | 32.8% |
| BUFFALO SCHOOL OF CULINARY ARTS AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT BUFFALO | 436 | 90.1% | 31.3% |
| FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL NEW YORK | 310 | 92.6% | 27.6% |
| BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY BROOKLYN | 469 | 90.4% | 43.3% |
| FDNY-CAPTAIN VERNON A RICHARDS HS BROOKLYN | 417 | 90.9% | 24.3% |
| ACADEMY FOR YOUNG WRITERS BROOKLYN | 398 | 89.2% | 34.9% |
Matched among New York high 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 EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #1,045 of 1,135 | #43 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #1,012 of 1,109 ▼ 62 | #45 of 51 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #928 of 1,135 ▼ 101 | #42 of 51 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #711 of 1,216 | #40 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.8:1 | #126 of 1,058 | #6 of 50 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.8% | #233 of 1,070 | #19 of 50 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.2% | #102 of 1,167 | #6 of 53 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -49.2% | #24 of 743 | #1 of 35 |
Ranked against other public high 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
399
-38 (-9%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 468
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 399 | 45.1 | 8.8:1 | 94% (376) |
| 2023-24 | 371 | 42.4 | 8.8:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 386 | 43.3 | 8.9:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 437 | 41 | 10.7:1 | 86% (374) |
| 2017-18 | 786 | 73.1 | 10.8:1 | 80% (629) |
| 2015-16 | 577 | 53 | 10.9:1 | 66% (378) |
| 2010-11 | 461 | 40 | 11.5:1 | 67% (311) |
| 2000-01 | 595 | 48 | 12.4:1 | 13% (78) |
| 1990-91 | 468 | 41 | 11.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY.
About EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY
BUFFALO, New York, is home to EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY, a low-enrollment high school. There are 399 students enrolled, covering grades 9 through 12. On average, high schools in New York enroll around 668, and this school is 40% below that mark.
EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY is one of 61 schools in BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 29,425 students in total.
Of every 100 students at EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY, about 55 are Black. The rest of enrollment is 25% Hispanic, 13% White, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among all residents of Erie County, the Black share is about 13%. The diversity index for EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY is 62%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are 45.1 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 8.8:1. The gap from the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is 2.2 students per teacher. On the income side, 94% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 51% average for public schools in Erie County, the school's rate is higher.
On the allk12 Grade, EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY lands at D, ahead of 9% of New York public high schools.
On BeatsExpectations, EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY is 7.5 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
The school is in Erie County, where median household income comes to about $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Erie County's 226 public schools enroll about 122,519 students and include EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, BUFFALO SCHOOL OF CULINARY ARTS AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT, is less than a tenth of a mile. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 38 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio was 10.7:1 in 2020-21 and 8.8:1 in 2024-25.
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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 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
Nearby schools
- BUFFALO SCHOOL OF CULINARY ARTS AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT0.1 mi · 436
- PS 42 OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING CENTER0.1 mi · 69
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,140
- HERMAN BADILLO BILINGUAL ACADEMY0.3 mi · 514
- ENTERPRISE CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 402
- WATERFRONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 743
Frequently asked questions
About EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITYHow large is EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY?
EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY enrolls approximately 399 students in grades 09-12.
Is EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY an elementary, middle, or high school?
EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY?
Approximately 8.8:1 students per teacher at EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY.
How diverse is EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY?
EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY reports a student body of 13% White, 25% Hispanic, 55% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY in?
EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY is part of BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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