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What's the one class at SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
428
Elementary
DISTRICT 304 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362688003665
SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1 DICKINSON ST, SILVER CREEK, NY 14136 · (716) 934-2603 · Chautauqua County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL428 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% 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
8.3:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
227 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 31 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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 SILVER CREEK 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
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
62.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 49.0% |
% 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
44.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (44.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 428 | 53.0% | 44.0% |
| JACKSON SCHOOL BATAVIA | 397 | 55.9% | N/A |
| HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUBURN | 399 | 51.4% | 38.8% |
| OAK ORCHARD PRIMARY SCHOOL MEDINA | 383 | 56.7% | N/A |
| TRI-VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GRAHAMSVILLE | 471 | 50.1% | 44.3% |
| CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OSWEGO | 390 | 50.5% | 37.2% |
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 SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Chautauqua County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,431 of 2,335 | #13 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #1,021 of 2,342 ▲ 336 | #5 of 21 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,808 of 2,343 ▼ 72 | #15 of 21 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 428 | #1,218 of 2,585 | #5 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.3:1 | #87 of 2,338 | #4 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.7% | #1,244 of 2,388 | #6 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.0% | #1,319 of 2,534 | #15 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.9% | #863 of 1,757 | #8 of 20 |
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
428
-30 (-7%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 779
Student : Teacher
8.3:1
was 9.5:1
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 | 428 | 51.4 | 8.3:1 | 53% (227) |
| 2023-24 | 430 | 51.6 | 8.3:1 | 53% (227) |
| 2022-23 | 440 | 56.1 | 7.8:1 | 55% (240) |
| 2020-21 | 458 | 48 | 9.5:1 | 58% (265) |
| 2017-18 | 503 | 52 | 9.7:1 | 59% (295) |
| 2015-16 | 551 | 49 | 11.2:1 | 63% (345) |
| 2010-11 | 539 | 55 | 9.8:1 | 51% (277) |
| 2000-01 | 555 | 51 | 10.9:1 | 39% (217) |
| 1990-91 | 779 | 45 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school with a street address in SILVER CREEK, New York. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 428 students in 2024-25.
SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports to SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 3 schools and 912 students.
More than half of enrollment at SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White: 69%. The next largest groups are 11% Native American, 10% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. The school's White share is 18 points below the 86% share among Chautauqua County residents. The diversity index for SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 50%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 51.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.3:1. The gap from the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is 4.5 students per teacher. At SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 53% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 35% of New York public elementary schools.
A school with SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 55.5%. SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 44.0%, 11.4 points below that line.
In Chautauqua County, home to about 125,544 people, median household income comes to about $58,351, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Chautauqua County's 51 public schools enroll about 17,056 students and include SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile from SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Within five miles are 4 other public schools. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Rural: Fringe by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment was 428 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 458. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 9.5:1 in 2020-21 to 8.3:1 in 2024-25.
The discussion board for SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is open to topics like special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Chautauqua County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
125,544
Census ACS
Median income
$58,351
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
17,056 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 284 students
- SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 200 students
Other schools in SILVER CREEK
- SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 284 students
- SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 200 students
Other Silver Creek Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Silver Creek Elementary. SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 7th largest of the 7.
- Silver Creek Elementary SchoolSellersburg, IN · 980 students
- Silver Creek ElementaryTroy, IL · 757 students
- Silver Creek Elementary SchoolToledo, OH · 679 students
- Silver Creek ElementaryTHORNTON, CO · 538 students
- Silver Creek Elementary SchoolBerea, KY · 490 students
Nearby schools
- SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 284
- SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 200
- FORESTVILLE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL4.6 mi · 185
- FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.7 mi · 211
- A J SCHMIDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.6 mi · 247
- SCHOOL 78.2 mi · 134
Frequently asked questions
About SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 428 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 69% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.