Enrollment
311
Elementary
DISTRICT 286 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LETCHWORTH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361713004301
LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5550 SCHOOL RD, GAINESVILLE, NY 14066 · (585) 493-2581 · Wyoming County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL311 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of New York public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
8.5:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
140 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 | 38 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 14% smaller than its 4th grade class (51).
Student demographics
6%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -8.0pp since 2023
Math
52.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -19.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 19 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 71.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
51.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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 LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (51.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 311 | 45.0% | 51.6% |
| PETROVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARANAC LAKE | 291 | 44.3% | 49.1% |
| EDWARDS-KNOX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HERMON | 289 | 45.3% | 26.5% |
| TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TIOGA CENTER | 323 | 47.1% | 64.1% |
| CHAUTAUQUA LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAYVILLE | 301 | 43.5% | 69.3% |
| BLOOMFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BLOOMFIELD | 316 | 44.6% | 48.8% |
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 LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Wyoming County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.6% | #1,097 of 2,335 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,373 of 2,342 ▼ 819 | #4 of 6 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,929 of 2,343 ▼ 830 | #6 of 6 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 311 | #1,922 of 2,585 | #5 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.5:1 | #106 of 2,338 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.7% | #2,366 of 2,388 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.0% | #1,549 of 2,534 | #3 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.2% | #654 of 1,757 | N/A |
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
311
-50 (-14%) vs 2020
-61% since 1990-91, when it was 796
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
was 9.8:1
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 | 311 | 36.8 | 8.5:1 | 45% (140) |
| 2023-24 | 336 | 39.9 | 8.4:1 | 43% (145) |
| 2022-23 | 368 | 38.8 | 9.5:1 | 44% (161) |
| 2020-21 | 361 | 37 | 9.8:1 | 40% (145) |
| 2017-18 | 385 | 37.5 | 10.3:1 | 42% (160) |
| 2015-16 | 378 | 34 | 11.1:1 | 37% (139) |
| 2010-11 | 363 | 42 | 8.6:1 | 35% (128) |
| 2000-01 | 486 | 37 | 13.1:1 | 29% (142) |
| 1990-91 | 796 | 55 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school in GAINESVILLE, New York. The grade span is pre-K through 4, and enrollment is 311 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
LETCHWORTH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 858 students, and its 3 schools include LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Most students at LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White: 97% of enrollment. LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 6%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teacher staffing is 36.8 full-time equivalents, or about 8.5 students per teacher. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 45%. Across public schools in Wyoming County, the average is about the same, 43%.
LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 49% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 51.6% actual against 58.4% predicted.
In the county around the school, Wyoming County, median household income is about $69,110, about 18% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. A total of 14 public schools operate in Wyoming County, serving about 4,159 students.
Of nearby public schools, LETCHWORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is the closest, at less than a tenth of a mile. The count of other public schools within five miles is 2. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's location as Rural: Distant.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 361 to 311. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 9.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 8.5:1.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Wyoming County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
39,753
Census ACS
Median income
$69,110
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
14
4,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LETCHWORTH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LETCHWORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 279 students
- LETCHWORTH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 268 students
Other schools in GAINESVILLE
- LETCHWORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 279 students
- LETCHWORTH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 268 students
Nearby schools
- LETCHWORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 279
- LETCHWORTH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 268
- WARSAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.8 mi · 365
- WARSAW MIDDLE SCHOOL8.0 mi · 179
- WARSAW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL8.0 mi · 233
- PERRY JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL8.8 mi · 333
Frequently asked questions
About LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 311 students in grades PK-04.
Is LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.5:1.
What is the student diversity at LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 97% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Two or more.
What district is LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of LETCHWORTH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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