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Enrollment
564
Elementary
DISTRICT 393 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FREEPORT AREA SD·NCES 421044000591
Buffalo Elementary School
500 Sarver Rd, Sarver, PA 16055 · (724) 353-9577 · Butler County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL564 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
149 students
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 75%
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 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 116 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 9% · STATE 59% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Freeport Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
65.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -3.5pp since 2023
Math
73.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 73.4% |
| 2023-24 | 68.5% | 68.3% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. 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
71.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania'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 Buffalo Elementary School
Buffalo Elementary School's state test result (71.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Elementary School this school | 564 | 26.4% | 71.9% |
| Donaldson Elementary School Oakdale | 535 | 26.5% | 91.2% |
| Wilson Elementary School Imperial | 586 | 27.0% | 86.5% |
| North East Elementary School North East | 589 | 29.9% | 70.7% |
| French Creek Elementary School Pottstown | 581 | 24.6% | 68.0% |
| Ross Elementary School Pittsburgh | 498 | 25.1% | 79.3% |
Matched among Pennsylvania 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 Buffalo Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Butler County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.9% | #255 of 1,396 | #4 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #223 of 1,511 ▲ 53 | #3 of 19 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #305 of 1,511 ▲ 72 | #6 of 19 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 564 | #343 of 1,638 | #8 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #1,286 of 1,528 | #16 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.2% | #1,401 of 1,531 | #13 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.4% | #1,373 of 1,600 | #14 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.3% | #349 of 450 | #9 of 10 |
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
564
+8 (+1%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 561
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 564 | 37.2 | 15.2:1 | 26% (149) |
| 2023-24 | 577 | 36.5 | 15.8:1 | 26% (149) |
| 2022-23 | 584 | 39 | 15.0:1 | 26% (149) |
| 2020-21 | 556 | 35 | 15.9:1 | 16% (87) |
| 2017-18 | 546 | 34.3 | 15.9:1 | 21% (112) |
| 2015-16 | 512 | 34 | 15.1:1 | 19% (95) |
| 2010-11 | 586 | 33 | 17.8:1 | 24% (140) |
| 2000-01 | 584 | 33 | 17.7:1 | 17% (102) |
| 1990-91 | 561 | 30 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Buffalo Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (546 to 564); teachers up 8% (34.3 to 37.2).
About Buffalo Elementary School
Buffalo Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Sarver, Pennsylvania, one of the schools in Freeport Area SD. The school has 564 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students, which makes this school 27% above average.
Buffalo Elementary School is one school in a 4-school district, Freeport Area SD, which enrolls 1,725 students.
White students account for 94% of the school's enrollment. The school is also 4% multiracial. Among Butler County residents, the White share is about 93%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 11, compared with 70 nationally.
Buffalo Elementary School reports a ratio of 15.2 students per teacher, from 37.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Buffalo Elementary School, 26% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 37% average for public schools in Butler County.
Buffalo Elementary School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 76% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 66.3% for Buffalo Elementary School. The school posts 71.9%, 5.6 points above the prediction.
American Community Survey estimates for Butler County show that the median household earns about $89,843 a year, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Butler County has 39 public schools with about 24,616 students, including Buffalo Elementary School.
Among nearby public schools, Freeport Area Middle School is closest at about 2.2 miles. There are 7 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Buffalo Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (556) to 2024-25 (564).
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Butler County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
197,254
Census ACS
Median income
$89,843
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
39
24,616 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Freeport Area SD
- Freeport Area SHSHigh · 512 students
- Freeport Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 428 students
- South Buffalo Elementary SchoolElementary · 221 students
Other Buffalo Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 7 states are named Buffalo Elementary. Buffalo Elementary School is the largest of the 9.
- Buffalo ElementaryBuffalo, SC · 483 students
- Buffalo Elementary SchoolKenova, WV · 402 students
- Buffalo Elementary SchoolBUFFALO, TX · 270 students
- Buffalo Elementary SchoolBuffalo, IA · 242 students
- Buffalo Elementary SchoolBuffalo, WV · 195 students
Nearby schools
- Freeport Area Middle School2.2 mi · 428
- Freeport Area SHS2.3 mi · 512
- Knoch Primary School4.1 mi · 536
- Knoch Middle School4.2 mi · 479
- Knoch Intermediate Elementary School4.2 mi · 296
- Knoch High School4.4 mi · 704
Frequently asked questions
About Buffalo Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Buffalo Elementary School?
Buffalo Elementary School enrolls approximately 564 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Buffalo Elementary School serve?
Buffalo Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Buffalo Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Buffalo Elementary School is approximately 15.2:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Buffalo Elementary School?
At Buffalo Elementary School, the student body is approximately 94% White, 1% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Buffalo Elementary School in?
Buffalo Elementary School is part of Freeport Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.