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What tradition at ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL should never be changed?
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Enrollment
392
Elementary
DISTRICT 382 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361767001588
ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
610 12 E HIGH ST, LOCKPORT, NY 14094 · (716) 478-4671 · Niagara County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL392 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
231 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 25% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 11% smaller than its 4th grade class (72).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→EMMET BELKNAP INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL→AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
36.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
44.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 57.0% |
% 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
41.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 392 | 58.9% | 41.8% |
| CLIFFORD WISE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL MEDINA | 383 | 58.7% | 39.0% |
| OAK ORCHARD PRIMARY SCHOOL MEDINA | 383 | 56.7% | N/A |
| JACKSON SCHOOL BATAVIA | 397 | 55.9% | N/A |
| CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CARTHAGE | 394 | 58.6% | 26.3% |
| SKOI-YASE SCHOOL WATERLOO | 345 | 59.4% | N/A |
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 ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Niagara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #1,535 of 2,335 | #13 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,690 of 2,342 ▼ 632 | #13 of 23 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,957 of 2,343 ▼ 182 | #15 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 392 | #1,408 of 2,585 | #16 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #1,444 of 2,338 | #15 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.3% | #1,383 of 2,388 | #13 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.9% | #1,179 of 2,534 | #11 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.0% | #857 of 1,757 | #7 of 22 |
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
392
-49 (-11%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 459
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 392 | 31.4 | 12.5:1 | 59% (231) |
| 2023-24 | 396 | 27.5 | 14.4:1 | 65% (259) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 28.5 | 15.2:1 | 61% (263) |
| 2020-21 | 441 | 29 | 15.2:1 | 62% (272) |
| 2017-18 | 461 | 34 | 13.6:1 | 51% (237) |
| 2015-16 | 443 | 31 | 14.3:1 | 58% (259) |
| 2010-11 | 400 | 31 | 12.9:1 | 55% (219) |
| 2000-01 | 376 | 25 | 15.0:1 | 33% (125) |
| 1990-91 | 459 | 23 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the public schools in LOCKPORT, New York. It is a medium-sized elementary school. The student body numbers 392 students, from kindergarten through 4.
LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT has 7 schools and 4,064 students, and ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
White students account for 71% of enrollment at ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other groups make up 13% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, and 7% Black. Niagara County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school's share is lower. The chance that two students picked at random at ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 46%.
At ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 31.4 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 12.5:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is about 12.8:1. Roughly 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 10 points above the 49% average for public schools in Niagara County.
allk12 grades ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a C. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 53.3%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 41.8%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Niagara County, median household income is about $69,633, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 51 public schools in Niagara County, which together enroll about 26,388 students.
The nearest public school is EMMET BELKNAP INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, at about 0.2 miles. ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 6 other public schools within five miles. The school's 41.8% average proficiency ranks 5th among 8 nearby schools.
ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as Town: Fringe in federal locale data.
Enrollment was 441 in 2020-21 and 392 in 2024-25, a decrease of 49 students. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 15.2:1 to 12.5:1.
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Niagara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
210,721
Census ACS
Median income
$69,633
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
26,388 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,377 students
- AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 587 students
- EMMET BELKNAP INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 571 students
- CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 448 students
- GEORGE SOUTHARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 363 students
- ANNA MERRITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 326 students
Other schools in LOCKPORT
- LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,377 students
- STARPOINT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 929 students
- STARPOINT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 726 students
- REGAN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 631 students
- AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 587 students
- FRICANO PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 584 students
Nearby schools
- EMMET BELKNAP INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 571
- CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 448
- LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,377
- ANNA MERRITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 326
- AARON MOSSELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 587
- GEORGE SOUTHARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 363
Frequently asked questions
About ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 392 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-04.
How many students per teacher at ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 71% White, 8% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.