HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in WILLIAMSVILLE, New York, overseen by CLARENCE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 452 students in grades K through 5.

CLARENCE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,081 students. HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 22% of students at HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Erie County's rate of about 51%.

After controlling for student poverty, HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.9%; this one delivers 68.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Erie County) reports that median household earnings sit near $72,839, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 78.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 476 (now 452). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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