MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in CHEEKTOWAGA, New York, part of CHEEKTOWAGA-MARYVALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 490 students, covering grades 3 through 5.

CHEEKTOWAGA-MARYVALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,236 students; MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL reports that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 18% Asian, 11% Black, 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL records 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of -8.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Erie County put median household income runs about $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

MARYVALE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.9%.

MARYVALE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 5%: 466 students in 2018 compared to 490 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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