Enrollment
407
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000368
HIGHGATE HEIGHTS
600 HIGHGATE AVE, BUFFALO, NY 14215 · (716) 816-4050 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL407 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% 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
11.5:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
378 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 35 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 47 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 42 | 10% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 10% larger than its 8th grade class (42).
Student demographics
51%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
12.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
16.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 12 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 12.0% | 16.0% |
| 2023-24 | 14.0% | 13.0% |
% 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
13.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-26.9pp
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 HIGHGATE HEIGHTS
HIGHGATE HEIGHTS's state test result (13.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGHGATE HEIGHTS this school | 407 | 92.9% | 13.9% |
| WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL BUFFALO | 342 | 92.4% | 37.9% |
| BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL BUFFALO | 371 | 96.5% | 19.9% |
| PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY BUFFALO | 396 | 96.5% | 18.7% |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING JR #48 BUFFALO | 413 | 96.1% | 11.9% |
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL #53 BUFFALO | 464 | 97.4% | 12.5% |
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 HIGHGATE HEIGHTS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.9% | #2,306 of 2,335 | #107 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.0% | #2,291 of 2,342 ▲ 13 | #103 of 115 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 12.0% | #2,329 of 2,343 ▼ 56 | #113 of 115 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 407 | #1,318 of 2,585 | #80 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #1,082 of 2,338 | #74 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.3% | #1,177 of 2,388 | #53 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.9% | #302 of 2,534 | #28 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.0% | #1,716 of 1,757 | #64 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
407
+17 (+4%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 451
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 407 | 35.3 | 11.5:1 | 93% (378) |
| 2023-24 | 384 | 32.2 | 11.9:1 | 93% (357) |
| 2022-23 | 382 | 30.2 | 12.6:1 | 91% (349) |
| 2020-21 | 390 | 38 | 10.3:1 | 85% (330) |
| 2017-18 | 411 | 27 | 15.2:1 | 77% (318) |
| 2015-16 | 430 | 30 | 14.3:1 | 75% (322) |
| 2010-11 | 569 | 45 | 12.6:1 | 87% (496) |
| 2000-01 | 585 | 45 | 13.0:1 | 99% (582) |
| 1990-91 | 451 | 27 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HIGHGATE HEIGHTS.
About HIGHGATE HEIGHTS
In BUFFALO, New York, part of Erie County, HIGHGATE HEIGHTS is an elementary school. The school runs pre-K through 8 and enrolls 407 students.
The BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 61 schools and 29,425 students.
At HIGHGATE HEIGHTS, 65% of students are Black. After that, the student body is 24% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 3% White. Census figures show Erie County is about 13% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, HIGHGATE HEIGHTS scores 51%.
There are about 11.5 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at HIGHGATE HEIGHTS, which has 35.3. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 1.3 more students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at HIGHGATE HEIGHTS is about 93%. On average, public schools in Erie County report 51%.
HIGHGATE HEIGHTS earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 2% of New York public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, HIGHGATE HEIGHTS would score about 40.8%. It scores 13.9%, a bottom-10% result among New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school is in Erie County, where median household income comes to 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. Erie County's 226 public schools enroll about 122,519 students and include HIGHGATE HEIGHTS.
WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL sits about 0.7 miles from HIGHGATE HEIGHTS. HIGHGATE HEIGHTS has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. HIGHGATE HEIGHTS comes in 9th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
HIGHGATE HEIGHTS falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 407, from 390 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 11.5 students per teacher, compared with 10.3 in 2020-21.
People who know HIGHGATE HEIGHTS can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
- WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 342
- AMHERST MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 646
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF INQUIRY1.0 mi · 276
- FREDERICK OLMSTED #1561.2 mi · 928
- BUFFALO UNITED CHARTER SCHOOL1.2 mi · 465
- AMHERST CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 865
Frequently asked questions
About HIGHGATE HEIGHTSWhat is the total enrollment at HIGHGATE HEIGHTS?
HIGHGATE HEIGHTS enrolls approximately 407 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does HIGHGATE HEIGHTS serve?
HIGHGATE HEIGHTS serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at HIGHGATE HEIGHTS?
The student-to-teacher ratio at HIGHGATE HEIGHTS is approximately 11.5:1 (35 FTE teachers).
How diverse is HIGHGATE HEIGHTS?
HIGHGATE HEIGHTS reports a student body of 3% White, 5% Hispanic, 65% Black, 24% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is HIGHGATE HEIGHTS in?
HIGHGATE HEIGHTS is part of BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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