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What's the one class at ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
439
Elementary
DISTRICT 368 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROYALTON-HARTLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362514003474
ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4500 ORCHARD PL, GASPORT, NY 14067 · (716) 735-2000 · Niagara County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL439 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 36% 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.
- 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
12.2:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
180 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 | 46 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (77).
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 21% · 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
Based on grade levels within ROYALTON-HARTLAND CENTRAL 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
47.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
60.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +15.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 45.0% |
% 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
46.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (46.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 439 | 41.0% | 46.6% |
| WILLIAM H BARTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL QUEENSBURY | 434 | 40.6% | 59.4% |
| NEWFANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWFANE | 467 | 40.5% | 48.8% |
| HOMER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL HOMER | 443 | 40.6% | 38.8% |
| PALMYRA-MACEDON PRIMARY SCHOOL PALMYRA | 431 | 42.2% | N/A |
| ALLEGANY-LIMESTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALLEGANY | 466 | 42.3% | 61.6% |
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 ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Niagara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #1,314 of 2,335 | #10 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #1,083 of 2,342 ▲ 410 | #7 of 23 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,474 of 2,343 ▲ 113 | #9 of 23 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 439 | #1,135 of 2,585 | #11 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #1,337 of 2,338 | #14 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.9% | #2,063 of 2,388 | #21 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.0% | #1,664 of 2,534 | #18 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.3% | #889 of 1,757 | #9 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
439
-37 (-8%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 497
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 439 | 36 | 12.2:1 | 41% (180) |
| 2023-24 | 446 | 42 | 10.6:1 | 37% (166) |
| 2022-23 | 477 | 28 | 17.0:1 | 44% (208) |
| 2020-21 | 476 | 28 | 17.0:1 | 42% (201) |
| 2017-18 | 512 | 40 | 12.8:1 | 37% (190) |
| 2015-16 | 512 | 37 | 13.8:1 | 37% (191) |
| 2010-11 | 595 | 40 | 14.9:1 | 30% (181) |
| 2000-01 | 488 | 39 | 12.5:1 | 14% (68) |
| 1990-91 | 497 | 34 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in GASPORT, New York, reachable at (716) 735-2000. The school has 439 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 4.
ROYALTON-HARTLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It has 3 schools and 1,104 students.
ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 88% White by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 8% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. The diversity index for ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 22%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are 36 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 12.2:1. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is close to this figure. On the income side, 41% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public elementary schools, ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 36%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 46.6% and a predicted 59.9%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Niagara County show that the median household earns about $69,633 a year, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Niagara County, 51 public schools serve about 26,388 students.
ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 5.2 miles away. The ten-mile area around ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th of 9 nearby schools, at 46.6% versus a 48.9% average.
The federal government classifies ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's location as Rural: Fringe.
The school's student count decreased 8% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 12.2 students per teacher, compared with 17.0 in 2020-21.
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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 ROYALTON-HARTLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ROYALTON-HARTLAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 337 students
- ROYALTON-HARTLAND MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 328 students
Nearby schools
- ROY KELLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.2 mi · 392
- EMMET BELKNAP INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL5.4 mi · 571
- ROYALTON-HARTLAND HIGH SCHOOL5.7 mi · 337
- ROYALTON-HARTLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL5.8 mi · 328
- CHARLES A UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.0 mi · 448
- LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL6.2 mi · 1,377
Frequently asked questions
About ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 439 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 88% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 8% Two or more.
Is ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
ROYALTON-HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROYALTON-HARTLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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