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What's something WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
796
High
DISTRICT 1,014 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363147004219
WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
5950 MAIN ST, WILLIAMSVILLE, NY 14221 · (716) 626-8200 · Erie County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL796 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of New York public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
219 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 157 | 20% |
| Grade 10 | 216 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 211 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 211 | 27% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
94.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
85.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 94.0% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 94.0% | 97.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
88.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in New York's top 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 WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (88.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL this school | 796 | 27.5% | 88.5% |
| JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL DEWITT | 820 | 27.6% | 89.5% |
| GRAND ISLAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL GRAND ISLAND | 868 | 29.0% | 90.7% |
| BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 1,164 | 24.3% | 90.5% |
| COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL EAST GREENBUSH | 1,272 | 24.4% | 91.8% |
| NEW PALTZ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NEW PALTZ | 622 | 26.8% | 81.0% |
Matched among New York high 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 WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 88.5% | #77 of 1,135 | #7 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #95 of 1,109 ▼ 66 | #7 of 51 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #110 of 1,135 ▲ 56 | #6 of 51 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 796 | #320 of 1,216 | #20 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #522 of 1,058 | #33 of 50 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.2% | #624 of 1,070 | #30 of 50 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.5% | #1,022 of 1,167 | #43 of 53 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.3% | #207 of 743 | #7 of 35 |
Ranked against other public high 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
796
-91 (-10%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 740
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 796 | 72.3 | 11.0:1 | 28% (219) |
| 2023-24 | 823 | 72.1 | 11.4:1 | 27% (221) |
| 2022-23 | 857 | 74 | 11.6:1 | 27% (235) |
| 2020-21 | 887 | 73 | 12.2:1 | 20% (180) |
| 2017-18 | 974 | 65.8 | 14.8:1 | 16% (160) |
| 2015-16 | 941 | 65 | 14.5:1 | 14% (136) |
| 2010-11 | 1,003 | 73 | 13.7:1 | 13% (130) |
| 2000-01 | 1,006 | 68 | 14.8:1 | 4% (42) |
| 1990-91 | 740 | 54 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL.
About WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is a high school in WILLIAMSVILLE, New York, reachable at (716) 626-8200. The school has 796 students in 2024-25 across grades 9 through 12.
WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 9,598 students in 13 schools, and WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The student body at WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is 74% White. The school is also 8% Asian, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. Among Erie County residents, the White share is about 74%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 43%.
WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL lists 72.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 11.0 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 28% of the student body. The gap from the 51% average for public schools in Erie County is 23 points.
On the allk12 Grade, WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 93% of New York public high schools.
Test results at WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL are 23.6 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 88.5%, compared with a predicted 64.9%, which ranks in the top 10% in New York.
For Erie County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $72,839 a year, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Public schools in Erie County number 226, with about 122,519 students.
MILL MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is 1st on average proficiency.
NCES assigns WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a drop of 91 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.2:1 in 2020-21, and 11.0:1 in 2024-25.
The WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,307 students
- WILLIAMSVILLE EAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 940 students
- TRANSIT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 912 students
- MILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 790 students
- MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 670 students
- HEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 661 students
Other schools in WILLIAMSVILLE
- WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,307 students
- MILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 790 students
- MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 670 students
- HEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 661 students
- HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 648 students
- MAPLE EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 597 students
Nearby schools
- MILL MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 790
- COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 566
- FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 515
- MAPLE EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 597
- MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 670
- SMALLWOOD DRIVE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 708
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL?
WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 796 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL serve?
WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL have?
WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL employs 72 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
What is the student diversity at WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 74% White, 5% Hispanic, 7% Black, 8% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL?
WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by WILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Erie County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.