UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in HAMBURG, New York, UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary campus, overseen by HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 663 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 50% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,309 students. UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 66.3%; actual is 37.8%, a gap of -28.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Erie County put the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

The closest other public school is HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 64.0%.

UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 14%: 583 students in 2018 compared to 663 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 93% to 87% across the same window.

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