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Enrollment
369
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000335
MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL
295 CARLTON ST, BUFFALO, NY 14204 · (716) 816-3800 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL369 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.
- ·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
8.9:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
359 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 | 28 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 24 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 19 | 5% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 41 | 11% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (24) is 41% smaller than its 8th grade class (41).
Student demographics
50%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% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
15.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp 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 15 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.0% | 15.0% |
| 2023-24 | 14.0% | 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
15.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 39% 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 MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL
MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL's state test result (15.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL this school | 369 | 97.3% | 15.5% |
| PS 136 ROY WILKINS SAINT ALBANS | 336 | 93.8% | 45.3% |
| PS 272 CURTIS ESTABROOK BROOKLYN | 365 | 94.8% | 30.9% |
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL #53 BUFFALO | 464 | 97.4% | 12.5% |
| PS 17 BUFFALO | 284 | 93.0% | 17.1% |
| ENTERPRISE CHARTER SCHOOL BUFFALO | 402 | 98.8% | 20.3% |
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 MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.5% | #2,293 of 2,335 | #103 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #2,299 of 2,342 ▼ 15 | #105 of 115 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #2,271 of 2,343 ▼ 2 | #93 of 115 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 369 | #1,550 of 2,585 | #89 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.9:1 | #168 of 2,338 | #10 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.0% | #1,231 of 2,388 | #56 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.3% | #74 of 2,534 | #4 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.4% | #734 of 1,757 | #25 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
369
-79 (-18%) vs 2020
-61% since 1990-91, when it was 939
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 369 | 41.3 | 8.9:1 | 97% (359) |
| 2023-24 | 424 | 46.5 | 9.1:1 | 95% (403) |
| 2022-23 | 422 | 49.1 | 8.6:1 | 95% (403) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 42 | 10.7:1 | 92% (411) |
| 2017-18 | 447 | 43 | 10.4:1 | 78% (350) |
| 2015-16 | 477 | 39 | 12.2:1 | 75% (358) |
| 2010-11 | 570 | 54 | 10.6:1 | 88% (502) |
| 2000-01 | 754 | 49 | 15.4:1 | 86% (647) |
| 1990-91 | 939 | 61 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
About MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL
MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL serves students in BUFFALO, New York, as a small elementary school. Its enrollment is 369 students, spread over pre-K through 8.
BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which runs MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL, has 61 schools and 29,425 students.
About 69% of the student body at MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL is Black. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% White, and 4% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County residents are about 13% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 50, compared with 70 nationally.
MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL has 41.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 8.9:1. The school's 8.9:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 97%. That is higher than the 51% average for public schools in Erie County.
On the allk12 Grade, MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL lands at F, ahead of 3% of New York public elementary schools.
In New York, MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 15.5% compared with a predicted 39.2%.
In the surrounding county, Erie County, the median household earns about $72,839 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL, Erie County has 226 public schools.
MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles from BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 30.6% on proficiency, and MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL is below that at 15.5%.
NCES describes the area around MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was an 18% decline, from 448 to 369. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 10.7:1 to 8.9:1.
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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
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- MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 862 students
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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
- BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 114
- MARTIN LUTHER KING JR #480.4 mi · 413
- CITY HONORS SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,088
- STANLEY MAKOWSKI EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER0.5 mi · 566
- REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 805
- BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 72
Frequently asked questions
About MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL?
MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 369 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL serve?
MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL?
Approximately 8.9:1 students per teacher at MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL?
At MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 6% White, 13% Hispanic, 69% Black, 9% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL public or private?
MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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