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If you could change one rule at NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
437
Elementary
DISTRICT 535 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363078004147
NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
250 NORTHWOOD AVE, WEST SENECA, NY 14224 · (716) 677-3640 · Erie County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL437 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest 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
9.7:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
168 students
DISTRICT 34% · 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 | 35 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 50.0% |
% 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
41.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 61% 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 NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (41.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 437 | 38.4% | 41.3% |
| VEEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBANY | 503 | 37.8% | 56.4% |
| FLOYD S WINSLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HENRIETTA | 505 | 37.0% | 59.8% |
| GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HORSEHEADS | 444 | 36.7% | 58.3% |
| PADDY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 521 | 36.3% | 54.0% |
| KATHLEEN GRIMM SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP STATEN ISLAND | 452 | 39.6% | 73.3% |
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 NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #1,554 of 2,335 | #65 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #1,781 of 2,342 ▼ 460 | #71 of 115 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,632 of 2,343 ▼ 37 | #66 of 115 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 437 | #1,145 of 2,585 | #70 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #341 of 2,338 | #20 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.8% | #958 of 2,388 | #46 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.4% | #1,732 of 2,534 | #68 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.1% | #514 of 1,757 | #17 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
437
-18 (-4%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 633
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 437 | 45.1 | 9.7:1 | 38% (168) |
| 2023-24 | 442 | 47.6 | 9.3:1 | 42% (184) |
| 2022-23 | 502 | 42.3 | 11.9:1 | 46% (231) |
| 2020-21 | 455 | 36 | 12.6:1 | 38% (173) |
| 2017-18 | 568 | 38.4 | 14.8:1 | 43% (242) |
| 2015-16 | 589 | 36 | 16.4:1 | 31% (180) |
| 2010-11 | 526 | 43 | 12.2:1 | 36% (190) |
| 2000-01 | 618 | 40 | 15.4:1 | 25% (156) |
| 1990-91 | 633 | 32 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in WEST SENECA, New York, and it is part of WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 437 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5.
Within WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 9 schools. The district enrolls 5,870 students.
Federal enrollment data show NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 64% White. Enrollment also includes 12% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 10% Black, and 3% multiracial. The school's White share is 10 points below the 74% share among Erie County residents. A diversity index of 56% means there is a 56% chance two randomly chosen students at NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 45.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 9.7:1. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 38%. For comparison, public schools in Erie County average 51%.
NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 23% of New York public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is -19.5 points, in the bottom 10% of New York. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 41.3%, and the predicted rate is 60.9%.
American Community Survey estimates for Erie County show that the median household earns about $72,839 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Across Erie County, 226 public schools serve about 122,519 students.
CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.6 miles from NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 455 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 437 by 2024-25. The school's ratio dropped from 12.6:1 to 9.7:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,069 students
- WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 779 students
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 778 students
- WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 680 students
- CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 629 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 567 students
Other schools in WEST SENECA
- WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,069 students
- WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 779 students
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 778 students
- WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 680 students
- CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 629 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 567 students
Other Northwood Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 15 states are named Northwood Elementary. NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 14th largest of the 25.
- NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHILTON, NY · 719 students
- NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCRESTVIEW, FL · 814 students
- Northwood ElementaryEdgewood, WA · 732 students
- Northwood ElementaryBaltimore, MD · 641 students
- Northwood ElementaryMarysville, OH · 617 students
Nearby schools
- CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 629
- JOHN F KENNEDY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 353
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.9 mi · 299
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL1.9 mi · 567
- WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 779
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL2.1 mi · 778
Frequently asked questions
About NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 437 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.7:1 students per teacher at NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 64% White, 10% Hispanic, 10% Black, 12% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.