Enrollment
250
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000356
PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC
249 SKILLEN ST, BUFFALO, NY 14207 · (716) 816-3430 · Erie County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL250 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 31% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test 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
10.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
236 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 | 45 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 33 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 47% larger than its 4th grade class (36).
Student demographics
71%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
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +26.0pp since 2023
Math
43.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 26 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 18.0% | 32.0% |
% 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
34.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 65 ROOSEVELT ECC
PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC's state test result (34.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC this school | 250 | 94.4% | 34.9% |
| BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS ALBANY | 240 | 90.8% | 51.9% |
| PS 188 MICHAEL E BERDY BROOKLYN | 236 | 96.6% | 31.5% |
| PS 2 TROY | 249 | 90.8% | 23.0% |
| PS 213 NEW LOTS BROOKLYN | 199 | 93.5% | 29.9% |
| PS 140 EDWARD K ELLINGTON JAMAICA | 270 | 88.5% | 57.0% |
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 65 ROOSEVELT ECC ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.9% | #1,841 of 2,335 | #74 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #1,728 of 2,342 ▲ 220 | #69 of 115 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,602 of 2,343 ▲ 594 | #61 of 115 ▲ 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 250 | #2,227 of 2,585 | #114 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #541 of 2,338 | #31 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.2% | #162 of 2,388 | #12 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.4% | #225 of 2,534 | #18 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.7% | #198 of 1,757 | #3 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
250
-47 (-16%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 391
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 250 | 24.3 | 10.3:1 | 94% (236) |
| 2023-24 | 272 | 25.5 | 10.7:1 | 89% (243) |
| 2022-23 | 284 | 26.3 | 10.8:1 | 88% (249) |
| 2020-21 | 297 | 25 | 11.9:1 | 84% (250) |
| 2017-18 | 383 | 21 | 18.2:1 | 68% (260) |
| 2015-16 | 389 | 27 | 14.4:1 | 69% (269) |
| 2010-11 | 369 | 26 | 14.2:1 | 87% (320) |
| 2000-01 | 423 | 23 | 18.4:1 | 83% (353) |
| 1990-91 | 391 | 27 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC.
About PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC
PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC is a low-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in BUFFALO, New York. Enrolled students number 250 students, in pre-K through 4. Enrollment is 44% lower than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (61 schools, 29,425 students) runs PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC.
PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC's enrollment has no majority group, and Black students are the largest at 45%. After that, the student body is 21% Hispanic, 14% White, 11% Asian, and 8% multiracial. Among all residents of Erie County, the Black share is about 13%. PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC has a diversity index of 71%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
With 24.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC was 10.3:1. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 94%. Public schools in Erie County average 51%.
PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC is graded C by allk12, scoring above 31% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On BeatsExpectations, PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC is 5.4 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Erie County show that median household income is about $72,839, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC is one of 226 public schools in Erie County, which together enroll about 122,519 students.
The nearest other public school, CHARTER SCHOOL FOR APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES, is about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC ranks 2nd of 8 on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 297 in 2020-21 and 250 in 2024-25, a decrease of 47 students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 11.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.3:1.
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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
- CHARTER SCHOOL FOR APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES0.5 mi · 2,260
- PFC WILLIAM J GRABIARZ #790.7 mi · 518
- WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 771
- RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 285
- HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 274
- ELMWOOD VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL HERTEL1.2 mi · 416
Frequently asked questions
About PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECCWhat is the total enrollment at PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC?
PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC enrolls approximately 250 students in grades PK-04.
Is PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many students per teacher at PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC?
Approximately 10.3:1 students per teacher at PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC.
How diverse is PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC?
PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC reports a student body of 14% White, 21% Hispanic, 45% Black, 11% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC public or private?
PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC 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.