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How has WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
342
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360010705604
WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
24 WESTMINSTER AVE, BUFFALO, NY 14215 · (716) 816-3450 · Erie County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL342 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
9.5:1
36 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
316 students
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 27 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 24 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 41 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (27) is 34% smaller than its 8th grade class (41).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
35.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
40.8%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.0% | 40.8% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 38.0% |
% 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
37.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (37.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 342 | 92.4% | 37.9% |
| HIGHGATE HEIGHTS BUFFALO | 407 | 92.9% | 13.9% |
| BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL BUFFALO | 371 | 96.5% | 19.9% |
| PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY BUFFALO | 396 | 96.5% | 18.7% |
| DR GEORGE BLACKMAN ECC BUFFALO | 333 | 89.2% | 21.1% |
| PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION BUFFALO | 315 | 85.7% | 40.9% |
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 WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.9% | #1,715 of 2,335 | #70 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #1,836 of 2,342 ▼ 54 | #73 of 115 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,986 of 2,343 ▼ 425 | #76 of 115 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 342 | #1,715 of 2,585 | #96 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.5:1 | #294 of 2,338 | #16 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.8% | #1,151 of 2,388 | #51 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.4% | #320 of 2,534 | #29 of 122 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.8% | #143 of 1,757 | #1 of 68 |
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
342
-206 (-38%) vs 2020
-39% since 2010-11, when it was 562
Student : Teacher
9.5:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 342 | 36 | 9.5:1 | 92% (316) |
| 2023-24 | 425 | 45 | 9.4:1 | 92% (391) |
| 2022-23 | 427 | 50 | 8.5:1 | 96% (409) |
| 2020-21 | 548 | 44 | 12.4:1 | 95% (523) |
| 2017-18 | 550 | 54 | 10.2:1 | 92% (507) |
| 2015-16 | 542 | 42 | 12.9:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 562 | 48 | 11.7:1 | 85% (477) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL.
About WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
In BUFFALO, New York, WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is a small elementary school. It reported 342 students in kindergarten through 8 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.
About 65% of the student body at WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is Black. The remaining students are 22% Asian, 7% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Among people living in Erie County, the Black share is about 13%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 52, compared with 70 nationally.
WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.5:1, with 36 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 92% at WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Erie County is 51%.
WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 37% of New York public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, the prediction is 41.0% and the result is 37.9%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Erie County show that the median household earns about $72,839 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Erie County's 226 public schools enroll about 122,519 students and include WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Measured in a straight line, FREDERICK OLMSTED #156 is about 0.6 miles from WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is ahead of the 32.6% nearby average, ranking 5th of 9.
The NCES locale for WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. It is a charter school, open to the public and funded by taxpayers.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 38%. The school's ratio dropped from 12.4:1 to 9.5:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BUFFALO
- CHARTER SCHOOL FOR APPLIED TECHNOLOGIESCombined · 2,260 students
- KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,235 students
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 1,120 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
Nearby schools
- FREDERICK OLMSTED #1560.6 mi · 928
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF INQUIRY0.6 mi · 276
- HIGHGATE HEIGHTS0.7 mi · 407
- BUFFALO UNITED CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 465
- RONALD PEOPLES SCHOOL OF SCHOLARS (THE)0.9 mi · 269
- PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION0.9 mi · 315
Frequently asked questions
About WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 342 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL serve?
WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.5:1 students per teacher at WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL are roughly 1% White, 7% Hispanic, 65% Black, 22% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL public or private?
WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL.
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