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How has INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
933
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000341
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
141 HOYT ST, BUFFALO, NY 14213 · (716) 816-3300 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL933 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 3% 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.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
10.7:1
87 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
892 students
DISTRICT 88% · 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 | 51 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 107 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 102 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 91 | 10% |
| Ungraded | 26 | 3% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 12% smaller than its 8th grade class (91).
Student demographics
71%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
18.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
17.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.0% | 17.0% |
| 2023-24 | 17.0% | 18.0% |
% 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
17.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% 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 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL's state test result (17.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL this school | 933 | 95.6% | 17.1% |
| HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY BUFFALO | 550 | 97.8% | 11.1% |
| WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BUFFALO | 771 | 95.1% | 23.0% |
| WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 590 | 85.6% | 32.9% |
| PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCH SOUTH OZONE PARK | 1,008 | 84.5% | 53.1% |
| PS 106 PARKCHESTER BRONX | 822 | 87.6% | 45.2% |
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 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.1% | #2,279 of 2,335 | #100 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #2,282 of 2,342 ▼ 35 | #101 of 115 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #2,297 of 2,343 ▼ 67 | #101 of 115 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 933 | #69 of 2,585 | #2 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #702 of 2,338 | #49 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #193 of 2,388 | #16 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.6% | #167 of 2,534 | #12 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.9% | #715 of 1,757 | #24 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
933
-86 (-8%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 1,139
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 933 | 87 | 10.7:1 | 96% (892) |
| 2023-24 | 987 | 85.4 | 11.6:1 | 94% (927) |
| 2022-23 | 981 | 86.8 | 11.3:1 | 92% (901) |
| 2020-21 | 1,019 | 78 | 13.1:1 | 90% (921) |
| 2017-18 | 1,137 | 81 | 14.0:1 | 86% (983) |
| 2015-16 | 980 | 74 | 13.2:1 | 83% (813) |
| 2010-11 | 879 | 79 | 11.1:1 | 90% (791) |
| 2000-01 | 1,135 | 79 | 14.4:1 | 87% (987) |
| 1990-91 | 1,139 | 71 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL.
About INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is a large elementary school located in BUFFALO, New York. There are 933 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 8. That puts enrollment 111% above the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is part of a district of 61 schools: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 29,425 students.
The biggest share of students at INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, 37%, is Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 35% Asian, 16% White, 9% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. In Erie County overall, about 13% of residents are Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 71%.
On staff are 87 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.7:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 2.1 more students per teacher than here. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 96%. That is higher than the 51% average for public schools in Erie County.
Among New York public elementary schools, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL outscored 3%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ranks in the bottom 10% in New York. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 17.1%, against a prediction of 39.8%.
For Erie County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $72,839, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. There are 226 public schools in the county, enrolling about 122,519, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL among them.
LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles from INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is 7th on average proficiency.
Federal data place INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment decreased 8% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 13.1:1 to 10.7:1.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- FREDERICK OLMSTED #156High · 928 students
- MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 862 students
- SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 801 students
- SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 772 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
- FREDERICK OLMSTED #156High · 928 students
Other International schools
One other US public school is named International. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- International SchoolBellevue, WA · 600 students
Nearby schools
- LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL0.1 mi · 475
- WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 498
- NATIVE AMERICAN MAGNET0.5 mi · 367
- FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #300.7 mi · 614
- DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#180.8 mi · 475
- INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE)1.0 mi · 640
Frequently asked questions
About INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL enrolls approximately 933 students in grades PK-08.
Is INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL have?
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL employs 87 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.7:1.
What is the student diversity at INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?
Student demographics at INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL are roughly 16% White, 9% Hispanic, 37% Black, 35% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL in?
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is part of BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.