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Enrollment
426
Elementary
DISTRICT 441 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SALAMANCA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362544003518
PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
300 PROSPECT AVE, SALAMANCA, NY 14779 · (716) 945-5170 · Cattaraugus County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 31% 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.
- C+Beats 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
8.0:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
313 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 60 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 23% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 38.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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 PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (39.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 426 | 73.5% | 39.0% |
| NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WATERTOWN | 435 | 70.6% | 28.8% |
| SALMON RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT COVINGTON | 311 | 71.1% | 27.5% |
| GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROME | 397 | 79.6% | 10.5% |
| MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JAMESTOWN | 509 | 77.6% | 17.9% |
| BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROME | 544 | 69.9% | 10.7% |
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 PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Cattaraugus County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,672 of 2,335 | #8 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,502 of 2,342 ▲ 265 | #6 of 10 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,807 of 2,343 ▲ 13 | #8 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 426 | #1,228 of 2,585 | #4 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.0:1 | #57 of 2,338 | #1 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #264 of 2,388 | #1 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.5% | #923 of 2,534 | #1 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.0% | #1,605 of 1,757 | #9 of 10 |
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
426
-20 (-4%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 558
Student : Teacher
8.0:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 426 | 53.4 | 8.0:1 | 73% (313) |
| 2023-24 | 415 | 50.4 | 8.2:1 | 75% (311) |
| 2022-23 | 435 | 49.9 | 8.7:1 | 69% (298) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 43 | 10.4:1 | 66% (293) |
| 2017-18 | 439 | 40 | 11.0:1 | 62% (271) |
| 2015-16 | 475 | 39 | 12.2:1 | 64% (302) |
| 2010-11 | 395 | 38 | 10.4:1 | 65% (257) |
| 2000-01 | 434 | 30 | 14.5:1 | 50% (215) |
| 1990-91 | 558 | 34 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Families in SALAMANCA, New York, are served by PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary school. The school serves 426 students in pre-K through 3 in 2024-25.
SALAMANCA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT operates 3 schools. Combined enrollment is 1,323 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White (43%). Other groups make up 29% Native American, 18% multiracial, and 8% Hispanic. Cattaraugus County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school's share is lower. The chance that two students picked at random at PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 69%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 8.0:1, with 53.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 73%. On average, public schools in Cattaraugus County report 50%.
allk12 grades PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a C. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 48.0%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 39.0%.
Across Cattaraugus County, median household income is about $59,540, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 21% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. The public schools of Cattaraugus County number 31 and enroll about 11,228.
The nearest other public school, SALAMANCA HIGH SCHOOL, is about 2.4 miles away. In all, 2 other public schools sit within five miles of PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 5th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Town: Distant, meaning it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL went from 446 students to 426. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 10.4:1 to 8.0:1.
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Cattaraugus County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
76,145
Census ACS
Median income
$59,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
31
11,228 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SALAMANCA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SALAMANCA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 493 students
- SENECA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 404 students
- WARRIOR ACADEMYElementary
Other schools in SALAMANCA
- SALAMANCA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 493 students
- SENECA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 404 students
- WARRIOR ACADEMYElementary
Other Prospect Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 8 states are named Prospect Elementary. PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 6th largest of the 11.
- PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHEMPSTEAD, NY · 441 students
- Prospect ElementaryMaxton, NC · 775 students
- Prospect Elementary SchoolProspect, CT · 572 students
- Prospect Elementary SchoolGirard, OH · 498 students
- PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMERIDIAN, ID · 456 students
Nearby schools
- SALAMANCA HIGH SCHOOL2.4 mi · 493
- SENECA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 404
- ELLICOTTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.6 mi · 218
- ELLICOTTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL6.6 mi · 294
- ALLEGANY-LIMESTONE MIDDLE-HIGH SCHOOL9.9 mi · 562
- ALLEGANY-LIMESTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL11.3 mi · 466
Frequently asked questions
About PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 426 students in grades PK-03.
What age range does PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 03.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 8.0:1 (53 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 43% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 18% Two or more.
What district is PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SALAMANCA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.