UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a sizable primary school in CHEEKTOWAGA, New York, one of the schools within CHEEKTOWAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 963 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 117% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

CHEEKTOWAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 2,322 students; UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 29% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 28% White, 27% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 67% of students at UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 33.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Erie County) shows that median household income runs about $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 17%: 822 students in 2018 compared to 963 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 6% to 27% across the same window.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.