MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL

As a medium-sized elementary-level community in NIAGARA FALLS, New York, MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL educates 388 students from grades pre-K through 6, operated by NIAGARA FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within NIAGARA FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 11 schools and 6,625 students, MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 29% White, 14% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 7% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 70% of students at MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Niagara County (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.2%; MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL posts 23.1%, -26.1 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Niagara County indicate median household income runs about $69,633, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Niagara County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,388 students), of which MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL is one.

HENRY J KALFAS MAGNET SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 28.4%.

MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL has ticked up 17%, going from 331 students in 2018 to 388 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 50% to 29%.

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