LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a mid-sized K-5 school in CLARENCE, New York, LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL caters to 486 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within CLARENCE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 9% of students at LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.7%, the actual is 77.1%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Erie County) records that the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CLARENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 77.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 484 students in 2018 to 486 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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