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Enrollment
444
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000360
PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY
1725 CLINTON ST, BUFFALO, NY 14206 · (716) 816-4794 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL444 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 22% 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.
- 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
10.9:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
410 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 | 31 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 30 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 41 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 67 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 48% smaller than its 8th grade class (67).
Student demographics
77%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
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
32.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
31.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY
PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY's state test result (31.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY this school | 444 | 92.3% | 31.4% |
| LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 BUFFALO | 589 | 94.7% | 18.6% |
| PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY BUFFALO | 481 | 90.4% | 26.6% |
| HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 440 | 85.0% | 13.5% |
| NATIVE AMERICAN MAGNET BUFFALO | 367 | 94.0% | 25.7% |
| PFC WILLIAM J GRABIARZ #79 BUFFALO | 518 | 93.4% | 24.1% |
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 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #1,970 of 2,335 | #77 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #2,051 of 2,342 ▼ 12 | #80 of 115 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,737 of 2,343 ▲ 173 | #70 of 115 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 444 | #1,105 of 2,585 | #67 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #807 of 2,338 | #56 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.6% | #19 of 2,388 | #2 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.3% | #324 of 2,534 | #30 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.8% | #921 of 1,757 | #32 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
444
-58 (-12%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 408
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 444 | 40.6 | 10.9:1 | 92% (410) |
| 2023-24 | 434 | 38.7 | 11.2:1 | 88% (382) |
| 2022-23 | 455 | 40.7 | 11.2:1 | 85% (388) |
| 2020-21 | 502 | 37 | 13.6:1 | 84% (420) |
| 2017-18 | 515 | 41 | 12.6:1 | 79% (405) |
| 2015-16 | 539 | 42 | 12.8:1 | 73% (391) |
| 2010-11 | 524 | 37 | 14.2:1 | 89% (468) |
| 2000-01 | 411 | 34 | 12.1:1 | 80% (330) |
| 1990-91 | 408 | 33 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY.
About PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY
PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in BUFFALO, New York. The school counts 444 students across pre-K through 8.
PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY sits within BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 61 schools and 29,425 students.
The most common group at PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY is Black students, at 32%. Other groups include 24% White, 19% Asian, 17% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. The county population is about 13% Black. PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY's diversity index is 77%, against a US figure of 70%.
A ratio of 10.9:1 comes from the school's 40.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The lunch program counts 92% of students at PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Erie County, the average is 51%.
The allk12 Grade for PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY is C-. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 22% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY's results are 9.6 points below predicted: 31.4% against 41.0%.
PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY is located in Erie County, where the median household income is $72,839, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Besides PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY, Erie County has 225 other public schools.
PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles of PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 12% enrollment decrease, from 502 in 2020-21 to 444 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 10.9:1, from 13.6:1.
The PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
- PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY0.7 mi · 481
- SOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 912
- SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 772
- LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #431.3 mi · 589
- SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 801
- LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 638
Frequently asked questions
About PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY?
PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY enrolls approximately 444 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY serve?
PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY.
How diverse is PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY?
PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY reports a student body of 24% White, 17% Hispanic, 32% Black, 19% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY?
PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY is overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Erie County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.