Enrollment
269
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585000370
RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE)
230 EASTON AVE, BUFFALO, NY 14215 · (716) 816-4070 · Erie County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL269 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
260 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 | 54 | 20% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 26 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 19 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 55% larger than its 4th grade class (33).
Student demographics
49%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
9.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -13.0pp since 2023
Math
19.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 9 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 9.0% | 19.0% |
| 2023-24 | 22.0% | 20.0% |
% 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
17.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 39% 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 RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE)
RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE)'s state test result (17.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) this school | 269 | 96.7% | 17.2% |
| CHARTER SCHOOL OF INQUIRY BUFFALO | 276 | 93.1% | 15.8% |
| PS 17 BUFFALO | 284 | 93.0% | 17.1% |
| WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL BUFFALO | 342 | 92.4% | 37.9% |
| PS 136 ROY WILKINS SAINT ALBANS | 336 | 93.8% | 45.3% |
| PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY BUFFALO | 396 | 96.5% | 18.7% |
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 RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.2% | #2,277 of 2,335 | #98 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #2,264 of 2,342 ▼ 43 | #96 of 115 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 9.0% | #2,336 of 2,343 ▼ 216 | #114 of 115 ▼ 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 269 | #2,152 of 2,585 | #112 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #674 of 2,338 | #47 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.9% | #1,283 of 2,388 | #59 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.7% | #104 of 2,534 | #5 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.1% | #399 of 1,757 | #13 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
269
-2 (-1%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 573
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 9.7:1
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 | 269 | 25.2 | 10.7:1 | 97% (260) |
| 2023-24 | 288 | 28.4 | 10.1:1 | 95% (274) |
| 2022-23 | 274 | 29.5 | 9.3:1 | 95% (259) |
| 2020-21 | 271 | 28 | 9.7:1 | 93% (253) |
| 2017-18 | 364 | 31 | 11.7:1 | 80% (293) |
| 2015-16 | 437 | 37 | 11.8:1 | 74% (323) |
| 2010-11 | 475 | 40 | 11.9:1 | 87% (414) |
| 2000-01 | 585 | 37 | 15.8:1 | 59% (348) |
| 1990-91 | 573 | 26 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE).
About RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE)
Located in BUFFALO, New York, RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) is a small elementary school. It had 269 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 4. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 39% lower.
In BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, 61 schools enroll a combined 29,425 students.
More than half of the students at RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) are Black (69%). Beyond that, enrollment is 16% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% White. In Erie County overall, about 13% of residents are Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) scores 49%.
Teacher count: 25.2 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 10.7:1. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 97%. Compared with the 51% average for public schools in Erie County, the school's rate is higher.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) would score about 39.5%. It scores 17.2%, a bottom-10% result among New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Erie County, the median household earns about $72,839 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Across Erie County, 226 public schools serve about 122,519 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, FREDERICK OLMSTED #156, is about 0.4 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) is 7th among 9 schools close by.
Federal data place RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's size has been steady, with 271 students in 2020-21 and 269 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
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
- FREDERICK OLMSTED #1560.4 mi · 928
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF INQUIRY0.4 mi · 276
- KING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 419
- WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL0.9 mi · 342
- PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION1.2 mi · 315
- BUFFALO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL II1.3 mi · 704
Frequently asked questions
About RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE)How large is RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE)?
RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) enrolls approximately 269 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) serve?
RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE)?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE).
What is the racial breakdown of students at RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE)?
At RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE), the student body is approximately 3% White, 7% Hispanic, 69% Black, 16% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) public or private?
RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE) is a public K-12 school, overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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