PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in SALAMANCA, New York, part of SALAMANCA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 426 students spanning grades pre-K through 3.

Across the 3 schools in SALAMANCA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,323 students total), PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Native American, 18% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cattaraugus County (around 50%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.0%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of -9.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cattaraugus County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,540 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Cattaraugus County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,228 students), of which PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SALAMANCA HIGH SCHOOL, around 2.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 52.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 3%, going from 439 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 53% to 43% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 today.

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