HUTH ROAD SCHOOL

HUTH ROAD SCHOOL is a mid-tier elementary school in GRAND ISLAND, New York, one of the schools within GRAND ISLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school instructs 473 students in grades 2 through 5.

Within GRAND ISLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,829 students, HUTH ROAD SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, HUTH ROAD SCHOOL logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 4% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, HUTH ROAD SCHOOL shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 25% of students at HUTH ROAD SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, HUTH ROAD SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.7%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Erie County) records that the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), HUTH ROAD SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: VERONICA E CONNOR MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HUTH ROAD SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HUTH ROAD SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 47.7%.

HUTH ROAD SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 15%: 411 students in 2018 compared to 473 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share rose from 83% to 88%.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.