Enrollment
315
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000352
PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION
453 LEROY ST, BUFFALO, NY 14215 · (716) 816-3400 · Erie County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL315 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% 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.
- B-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
11.2:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
270 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 52 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 41% larger than its 4th grade class (39).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
51.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
35.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 39.0% |
% 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
40.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION
PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION's state test result (40.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION this school | 315 | 85.7% | 40.9% |
| DR GEORGE BLACKMAN ECC BUFFALO | 333 | 89.2% | 21.1% |
| WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL BUFFALO | 342 | 92.4% | 37.9% |
| ROOTS ACADEMY AT WEST HILL ALBANY | 283 | 86.6% | 17.2% |
| PS 119 AMERSFORT BROOKLYN | 393 | 86.5% | 39.5% |
| PS 134 HOLLIS HOLLIS | 325 | 86.5% | 34.8% |
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 PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #1,571 of 2,335 | #66 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,988 of 2,342 ▼ 261 | #77 of 115 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,295 of 2,343 ▲ 90 | #47 of 115 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 315 | #1,897 of 2,585 | #100 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #935 of 2,338 | #64 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.1% | #512 of 2,388 | #31 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.7% | #585 of 2,534 | #37 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.9% | #1,661 of 1,757 | #61 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
315
+56 (+22%) vs 2020
-55% since 1990-91, when it was 705
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 315 | 28.1 | 11.2:1 | 86% (270) |
| 2023-24 | 313 | 26.8 | 11.7:1 | 84% (263) |
| 2022-23 | 264 | 24.8 | 10.7:1 | 83% (218) |
| 2020-21 | 259 | 22 | 11.8:1 | 86% (224) |
| 2017-18 | 321 | 30 | 10.7:1 | 71% (229) |
| 2015-16 | 298 | 19 | 15.7:1 | 82% (244) |
| 2010-11 | 316 | 30 | 10.5:1 | 93% (294) |
| 2000-01 | 597 | 28 | 21.3:1 | 99% (593) |
| 1990-91 | 705 | 29 | 24.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION.
About PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION
Families in BUFFALO, New York, are served by PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION, a small elementary school. The student body numbers 315 students, from pre-K through 4. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 29% smaller than that.
BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION and 60 other schools, with 29,425 students in total.
Black students make up a majority at PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION, at 54%. The remaining students are 21% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 7% White. Census figures show Erie County is about 13% Black. PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION's diversity index is 64%, against a US figure of 70%.
PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION counts 28.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 11.2 students for each one. This ratio sits 1.6 below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. About 86% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. Across public schools in Erie County, the average is 51%.
PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 41% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION is -2.5 points: 40.9% actual, 43.5% predicted.
Erie County has these Census figures: the median household income is $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Erie County is home to 226 public schools and about 122,519 public school students.
The nearest public school is BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL, at about 0.4 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION places 2nd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 315 students in 2024-25, 56 more than the 259 it had in 2020-21.
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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 BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
- FREDERICK OLMSTED #156High · 928 students
- MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 862 students
- SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 801 students
Other schools in BUFFALO
- CHARTER SCHOOL FOR APPLIED TECHNOLOGIESCombined · 2,260 students
- KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,235 students
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 1,120 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
Nearby schools
- BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 502
- PS 840.5 mi · 151
- BUFFALO UNITED CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 465
- DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE0.7 mi · 560
- MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 1970.7 mi · 438
- RESEARCH LABORATORY HS-BIOINFORMATIC0.7 mi · 174
Frequently asked questions
About PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTIONWhat is the total enrollment at PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION?
PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION enrolls approximately 315 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION serve?
PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION is approximately 11.2:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION?
At PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION, the student body is approximately 7% White, 8% Hispanic, 54% Black, 21% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION?
PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION is overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Erie County.
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