SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL

Located at 551 79TH ST, in NIAGARA FALLS, New York, SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary campus that instructs 415 students (grades pre-K through 6), part of NIAGARA FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 11 schools in NIAGARA FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (6,625 students total), SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 14% multiracial, 12% Black, 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Niagara County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Niagara County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of -15.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Niagara County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,633 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Niagara County's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,388 students), SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LASALLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.5%.

SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 437 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 70% to 63%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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