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Enrollment
614
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585005858
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30
21 LOWELL PL, BUFFALO, NY 14213 · (716) 816-3220 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL614 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% 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.
- FBeats 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
10.1:1
61 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
571 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 | 45 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 58 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 12% smaller than its 8th grade class (58).
Student demographics
47%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
18.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
14.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 18 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 are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.0% | 14.0% |
| 2023-24 | 15.0% | 12.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
14.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-26.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 41% 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 FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30's state test result (14.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 this school | 614 | 93.0% | 14.3% |
| MARGETTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONSEY | 579 | 90.7% | 23.0% |
| ELMWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONSEY | 598 | 89.1% | 19.2% |
| PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY BRONX | 667 | 94.6% | 40.9% |
| PS 8 ISAAC VARIAN BRONX | 600 | 92.3% | 38.2% |
| LIME KILN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUFFERN | 584 | 90.8% | 16.7% |
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 FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.3% | #2,303 of 2,335 | #105 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.0% | #2,306 of 2,342 ▲ 3 | #107 of 115 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #2,298 of 2,343 ▼ 40 | #102 of 115 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 614 | #415 of 2,585 | #22 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #479 of 2,338 | #26 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.7% | #1,363 of 2,388 | #60 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.0% | #297 of 2,534 | #26 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.5% | #640 of 1,757 | #21 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
614
-114 (-16%) vs 2020
-15% since 2010-11, when it was 724
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 614 | 60.7 | 10.1:1 | 93% (571) |
| 2023-24 | 604 | 57.4 | 10.5:1 | 94% (569) |
| 2022-23 | 672 | 64 | 10.5:1 | 94% (635) |
| 2020-21 | 728 | 59 | 12.3:1 | 94% (682) |
| 2017-18 | 763 | 66 | 11.6:1 | 82% (629) |
| 2015-16 | 795 | 59 | 13.5:1 | 78% (622) |
| 2010-11 | 724 | 76 | 9.5:1 | 95% (691) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30.
About FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 is an elementary school with a street address in BUFFALO, New York. The student body numbers 614 students, from pre-K through 8. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 39% bigger than that.
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 is part of a district of 61 schools: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 29,425 students.
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30's enrollment is 71% Hispanic. Other groups make up 15% Black, 7% Asian, and 5% White. County-wide, 6% of Erie County residents are Hispanic. FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 has a diversity index of 47%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 operates with 60.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 10.1:1. That ratio is under the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 reports 93% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Erie County is 51%.
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 is graded F by allk12, scoring above 1% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations places FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 in the bottom 10% of New York schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 26.5 points below it (14.3% actual, 40.8% predicted).
Across Erie County, median household income is about $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. The public schools of Erie County number 226 and enroll about 122,519.
Of nearby public schools, INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE) is the closest, at about 0.4 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 comes in 8th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 16%, from 728 to 614. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.3:1 in 2020-21, and 10.1:1 in 2024-25.
Community posts for FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 640
- DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#180.5 mi · 475
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL0.7 mi · 933
- D'YOUVILLE-PORTER CAMPUS0.7 mi · 521
- LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL0.8 mi · 475
- ELMWOOD VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL DAYS PARK0.8 mi · 429
Frequently asked questions
About FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30How large is FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30?
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 enrolls approximately 614 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 serve?
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 have?
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 employs 61 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1.
What is the student diversity at FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30?
Student demographics at FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 are roughly 5% White, 71% Hispanic, 15% Black, 7% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30?
FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30 is overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Erie County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.