PRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a low-enrollment primary school in BARKER, New York, overseen by BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 360 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 2 schools in BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,013 students total), PRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, PRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.1%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of -15.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Niagara County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,633, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 51 public schools in Niagara County (combined enrollment of about 26,388 students).

The closest other public school is BARKER CENTRAL SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 60.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. PRATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 417 (now 360). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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