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Enrollment
421
Elementary
DISTRICT 351 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GOWANDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361239001005
GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
450 ALDRICH ST, GOWANDA, NY 14070 · (716) 532-3325 · Erie County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL421 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
8.3:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
188 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 34 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 9% smaller than its 4th grade class (76).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within GOWANDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
48.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 48.0% |
% 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
48.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (48.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 421 | 44.7% | 48.5% |
| JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MASSENA | 452 | 43.1% | 51.6% |
| FINN ACADEMY: AN ELMIRA CHARTER SCHOOL ELMIRA | 411 | 43.8% | 36.8% |
| GENESEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GENESEO | 406 | 44.3% | 39.7% |
| HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUBURN | 399 | 51.4% | 38.8% |
| SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SILVER CREEK | 428 | 53.0% | 44.0% |
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 GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #1,216 of 2,335 | #47 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #1,192 of 2,342 ▲ 191 | #48 of 115 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,425 of 2,343 ▼ 180 | #55 of 115 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 421 | #1,255 of 2,585 | #75 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.3:1 | #84 of 2,338 | #4 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.0% | #708 of 2,388 | #39 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.7% | #1,562 of 2,534 | #62 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.9% | #1,724 of 1,757 | #65 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
421
+32 (+8%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 347
Student : Teacher
8.3:1
was 8.3:1
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 | 421 | 50.6 | 8.3:1 | 45% (188) |
| 2023-24 | 450 | 52 | 8.7:1 | 62% (279) |
| 2022-23 | 458 | 53 | 8.6:1 | 65% (299) |
| 2020-21 | 389 | 47 | 8.3:1 | 62% (242) |
| 2017-18 | 425 | 44 | 9.7:1 | 68% (290) |
| 2015-16 | 415 | 41 | 10.1:1 | 65% (268) |
| 2010-11 | 520 | 44 | 11.8:1 | 55% (284) |
| 2000-01 | 295 | 24 | 12.3:1 | 57% (167) |
| 1990-91 | 347 | 20 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in GOWANDA, New York, and it is part of GOWANDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The latest federal count shows 421 students in pre-K through 4.
The district for GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is GOWANDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 3 schools and 1,053 students.
A majority of students at GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 57%, are White. The rest of enrollment is 24% Native American, 13% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. Among all residents of Erie County, the White share is about 74%. The chance that two students picked at random at GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 60%.
GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 50.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 8.3:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, higher than at this school. GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 45%.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 58.6%. GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 48.5%.
GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Erie County, where median household income is about $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 226 public schools in Erie County, with a combined enrollment of about 122,519.
Of nearby public schools, GOWANDA HIGH SCHOOL is the closest, at about 0.7 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is 2. Its average proficiency rate of 48.5% is below the 58.3% average for nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is Town: Distant: the school is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL went from 389 students to 421.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. 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 GOWANDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GOWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 334 students
- GOWANDA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 298 students
Other schools in GOWANDA
- GOWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 334 students
- GOWANDA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 298 students
Nearby schools
- GOWANDA HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 298
- GOWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 334
- NORTH COLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.5 mi · 319
- NORTH COLLINS JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL8.5 mi · 234
- CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL10.6 mi · 256
- CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL10.6 mi · 234
Frequently asked questions
About GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 421 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 8.3:1 (51 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 57% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by GOWANDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Erie County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.