SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized K-5 school in SILVER CREEK, New York, run under SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 428 students in grades pre-K through 5.

SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 912 students. SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 11% Native American, 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Chautauqua County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.5%; this one delivers 44.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Chautauqua County) shows that median household income runs about $58,351, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Chautauqua County's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students), SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 15%, going from 503 students in 2018 to 428 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.

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