WALES PRIMARY SCHOOL

Set in EAST AURORA, New York, WALES PRIMARY SCHOOL is a cozy primary school, run under IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 185 students across grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 58% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 6 schools in IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,073 students total), WALES PRIMARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, WALES PRIMARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder breaks down as 3% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, WALES PRIMARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 52.9%, a residual of -14.0 points.

In the area at large, 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. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which WALES PRIMARY SCHOOL is one.

EAST AURORA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, WALES PRIMARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 69.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 24%: 244 students in 2018 compared to 185 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 9.8:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.