Enrollment
396
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000364
PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY
126 DONALDSON RD, BUFFALO, NY 14208 · (716) 816-3490 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL396 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
9.3:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
382 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 | 36 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 25 | 6% |
| Grade 5 | 33 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 49 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 6% smaller than its 8th grade class (49).
Student demographics
51%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
14.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
17.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.0% | 17.0% |
| 2023-24 | 19.0% | 19.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY
PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY's state test result (18.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY this school | 396 | 96.5% | 18.7% |
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL #53 BUFFALO | 464 | 97.4% | 12.5% |
| HIGHGATE HEIGHTS BUFFALO | 407 | 92.9% | 13.9% |
| WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL BUFFALO | 342 | 92.4% | 37.9% |
| BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL BUFFALO | 371 | 96.5% | 19.9% |
| MARVA J DANIEL FUTURES PREPARATORY SCHOOL BUFFALO | 369 | 97.3% | 15.5% |
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 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.7% | #2,258 of 2,335 | #94 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #2,283 of 2,342 ▼ 49 | #102 of 115 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.0% | #2,318 of 2,343 ▼ 121 | #107 of 115 ▼ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 396 | #1,383 of 2,585 | #85 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #227 of 2,338 | #12 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.0% | #1,189 of 2,388 | #54 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.5% | #116 of 2,534 | #7 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.2% | #1,007 of 1,757 | #35 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
396
-15 (-4%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 579
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 396 | 42.8 | 9.3:1 | 96% (382) |
| 2023-24 | 404 | 40.6 | 10.0:1 | 97% (390) |
| 2022-23 | 392 | 41.8 | 9.4:1 | 95% (372) |
| 2020-21 | 411 | 38 | 10.8:1 | 94% (386) |
| 2017-18 | 451 | 33 | 13.7:1 | 82% (368) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 32 | 14.8:1 | 77% (362) |
| 2010-11 | 513 | 46 | 11.2:1 | 78% (401) |
| 2000-01 | 460 | 36 | 12.8:1 | 91% (420) |
| 1990-91 | 579 | 37 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY.
About PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY
PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY is a medium-sized elementary school located in BUFFALO, New York. It serves 396 students in pre-K through 8.
The district for PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY is BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 61 schools and 29,425 students.
PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY's enrollment is 67% Black. The next largest groups are 17% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% White. In Erie County overall, about 13% of residents are Black. PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY has a diversity index of 51%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its 42.8 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 9.3:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, higher than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 96% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 45 points above the 51% average for public schools in Erie County.
PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY is graded D by allk12, scoring above 5% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY ranks in the bottom 10% of New York schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 18.7%. Predicted: 39.5%. Difference: 20.8 points.
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 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY is one of 226 public schools in Erie County, which together enroll about 122,519 students.
The shortest distance from PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to COMMUNITY SCHOOL #53. The five-mile area around PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 18.7% average proficiency ranks 5th among 8 nearby schools.
PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Federal counts put enrollment at 411 in 2020-21 and 396 in 2024-25, a 4% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.8:1 in 2020-21 to 9.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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
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- TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 1,120 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
Nearby schools
- COMMUNITY SCHOOL #530.4 mi · 464
- ERIE COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY0.6 mi · 13
- PS 170.6 mi · 284
- DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE0.7 mi · 560
- BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS0.7 mi · 617
- MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 1970.8 mi · 438
Frequently asked questions
About PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMYHow large is PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY?
PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY enrolls approximately 396 students in grades PK-08.
Is PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY have?
PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY?
At PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 3% White, 7% Hispanic, 67% Black, 17% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY in?
PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY is part of BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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