WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a low-enrollment primary school in SLOAN, New York, part of CHEEKTOWAGA-SLOAN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 284 students spanning grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 36% leaner than typical.
Across the 4 schools in CHEEKTOWAGA-SLOAN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,248 students total), WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 55% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% Asian, 12% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.
On the resource side, On paper, WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 60% of students at WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 47.8%, a residual of -5.2 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Erie County put the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).
LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 37.8%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 4%, going from 297 students in 2018 to 284 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 81% to 55%.
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