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Enrollment
589
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000339
LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43
161 BENZINGER ST, BUFFALO, NY 14206 · (716) 816-3260 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL589 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% 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.
- ·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
11.9:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
558 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 | 54 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 56 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 56 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (56).
Student demographics
77%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
21.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
19.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.0% | 19.0% |
| 2023-24 | 16.0% | 15.0% |
% 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
18.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% 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 LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43
LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43's state test result (18.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 this school | 589 | 94.7% | 18.6% |
| PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY BUFFALO | 444 | 92.3% | 31.4% |
| PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY BUFFALO | 481 | 90.4% | 26.6% |
| PFC WILLIAM J GRABIARZ #79 BUFFALO | 518 | 93.4% | 24.1% |
| WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BUFFALO | 771 | 95.1% | 23.0% |
| PS 81 BUFFALO | 739 | 85.3% | 29.8% |
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 LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #2,259 of 2,335 | #95 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #2,263 of 2,342 ▲ 21 | #95 of 115 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #2,272 of 2,343 ▼ 28 | #94 of 115 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 589 | #510 of 2,585 | #28 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #1,238 of 2,338 | #80 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.2% | #12 of 2,388 | #1 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.7% | #206 of 2,534 | #16 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.1% | #1,017 of 1,757 | #36 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
589
+11 (+2%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 668
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
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 | 589 | 49.4 | 11.9:1 | 95% (558) |
| 2023-24 | 619 | 49.4 | 12.5:1 | 92% (570) |
| 2022-23 | 577 | 50.8 | 11.3:1 | 93% (537) |
| 2020-21 | 578 | 44 | 13.1:1 | 88% (507) |
| 2017-18 | 670 | 40 | 16.8:1 | 77% (519) |
| 2015-16 | 677 | 44 | 15.4:1 | 77% (521) |
| 2010-11 | 538 | 42 | 12.8:1 | 81% (437) |
| 2000-01 | 618 | 48 | 12.9:1 | 72% (443) |
| 1990-91 | 668 | 47 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43.
About LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43
LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 is a medium-sized elementary school in New York, with an address in BUFFALO. The student body numbers 589 students, from pre-K through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
In BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, 61 schools enroll a combined 29,425 students.
LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43's enrollment has no majority group, and Black students are the largest at 30%. Other students are 26% White, 20% Asian, 14% Hispanic, and 10% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County residents are about 13% Black. LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 has a diversity index of 77%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school employs the equivalent of 49.4 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 11.9:1. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 95%. The rate at public schools in Erie County averages 51%, lower than here.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Test results at LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 are 21.5 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 18.6%, compared with a predicted 40.1%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in New York.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Erie County show that median household income is about $72,839, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 is one of 226 public schools in Erie County, which together enroll about 122,519 students.
Nearest public school: WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 35.6%; LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43's is 18.6%, ranking 7th of 8.
LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 has an NCES locale of City: Large.
The school's size has been steady, with 578 students in 2020-21 and 589 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.9:1, from 13.1:1.
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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
- WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 284
- HARVEY AUSTIN SCHOOL #971.2 mi · 487
- PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY1.3 mi · 444
- BUFFALO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL II1.4 mi · 704
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT SCHOOL1.5 mi · 312
- BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 371
Frequently asked questions
About LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43How large is LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43?
LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 enrolls approximately 589 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 serve?
LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43?
Approximately 11.9:1 students per teacher at LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43.
How diverse is LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43?
LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 reports a student body of 26% White, 14% Hispanic, 30% Black, 20% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43?
LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 is overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Erie County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.