WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL

WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL operates as an expansive middle school in LANCASTER, New York, part of LANCASTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 1,274 students spanning grades 4 through 6. That puts it 140% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

LANCASTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 5,321 students; WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

In terms of school funding signals, WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL shows 99 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 40% of students are eligible 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.4%, the actual is 61.4%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Erie County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

The closest other public school is COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 63.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. WILLIAM STREET SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,241 (now 1,274). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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