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Enrollment
583
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000355
PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED
874 AMHERST ST, BUFFALO, NY 14216 · (716) 816-3420 · Erie County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL583 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 85% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
12.6:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
229 students
DISTRICT 88% · 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 | 36 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 116 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 114 | 20% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 7% smaller than its 4th grade class (114).
Student demographics
70%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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
71.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
79.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 68.0% |
% 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
72.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED
PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED's state test result (72.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED this school | 583 | 39.3% | 72.1% |
| GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW ROCHELLE | 640 | 39.5% | 59.5% |
| BROOKLYN NEW SCHOOL-PS 146 (THE) BROOKLYN | 634 | 37.1% | 46.8% |
| PS 32 SAMUEL MILLS SPROLE BROOKLYN | 481 | 34.9% | 70.0% |
| PS 20 CLINTON HILL BROOKLYN | 689 | 38.5% | 66.6% |
| PS 282 PARK SLOPE BROOKLYN | 569 | 33.9% | 62.1% |
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 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.1% | #330 of 2,335 | #8 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #374 of 2,342 ▲ 246 | #7 of 115 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #490 of 2,343 ▼ 248 | #12 of 115 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 583 | #526 of 2,585 | #29 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #1,492 of 2,338 | #95 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.1% | #221 of 2,388 | #20 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.3% | #1,719 of 2,534 | #67 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #1,628 of 1,757 | #57 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
583
+47 (+9%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 494
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 583 | 46.3 | 12.6:1 | 39% (229) |
| 2023-24 | 572 | 44.2 | 12.9:1 | 37% (213) |
| 2022-23 | 558 | 43.1 | 12.9:1 | 32% (176) |
| 2020-21 | 536 | 32 | 16.8:1 | 27% (147) |
| 2017-18 | 598 | 40 | 14.9:1 | 26% (158) |
| 2015-16 | 625 | 31 | 20.2:1 | 29% (179) |
| 2010-11 | 512 | 38 | 13.5:1 | 34% (172) |
| 2000-01 | 453 | 25 | 18.1:1 | 40% (181) |
| 1990-91 | 494 | 29 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED.
About PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED
Federal records list PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED as an elementary school in BUFFALO, New York. There are 583 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 4. The school is 32% bigger than the average for elementary schools in New York.
PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED falls under BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 61 schools enrolling 29,425 students.
White students account for 46% of enrollment at PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, more than any other group. Smaller groups are 21% Hispanic, 20% Black, 8% Asian, and 7% multiracial. County-wide, 74% of Erie County residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 70%.
Its staff includes 46.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 12.6 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 39%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Erie County is 51%.
PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 85% of New York public elementary schools.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED's results are 11.5 points above predicted: 72.1% against 60.5%.
The school is in Erie County, where the median household earns about $72,839 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Across Erie County, 226 public schools serve about 122,519 students.
PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED is about 0.1 miles from TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED is ahead of the 34.4% nearby average, ranking 1st of 9.
The NCES locale for PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 9%, from 536 to 583. The ratio of students to teachers went from 16.8:1 to 12.6:1 over the same years.
The discussion board for PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
- TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,120
- MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 862
- ELMWOOD VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL HERTEL0.7 mi · 416
- PS 810.8 mi · 739
- WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 771
- PFC WILLIAM J GRABIARZ #791.1 mi · 518
Frequently asked questions
About PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTEDHow large is PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED?
PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED enrolls approximately 583 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED serve?
PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED?
At PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, the student body is approximately 46% White, 21% Hispanic, 20% Black, 8% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED public or private?
PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED is a public K-12 school, overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.