SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in WILLIAMSVILLE, New York, part of CLARENCE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 527 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within CLARENCE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 4,081 students, SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (83%) are White. Beyond that, the school reports 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.3%, the actual is 70.6%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Erie County shows median household earnings sit near $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

Nearest neighbor: HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 80.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has climbed 9%, going from 482 students in 2018 to 527 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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