HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 1625 LOCKPORT ST, in NIAGARA FALLS, New York, HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-tier primary school that caters to 650 students (grades 2 through 6), operated by NIAGARA FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 47% above the state mean of about 443.

NIAGARA FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,625 students; HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% White, 15% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 5% Asian. By comparison, Niagara County as a whole is about 7% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Niagara County (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.4%; HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 24.8%, -19.6 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Niagara County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,633, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

HENRY J KALFAS MAGNET SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 28.1%.

HARRY F ABATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 670 students in 2018 compared to 650 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share grew from 1% to 5%.

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