Public school / Primary
Cataract Elementary School
Niagara Falls, New York
- NCES ID
- 362082005954
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Cataract Elementary School is a public primary school in Niagara Falls, New York, run by Niagara Falls City School District. It enrols 531 students — the 33672nd largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
531
Teachers
35.0
Students per teacher
15.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
75.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Niagara Falls City School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Niagara Falls High School2,139 students
- 2Harry F Abate Elementary School695 students
- 3Cataract Elementary School531 students
- 4Hyde Park School505 students
- 5Gaskill Preparatory School500 students
- 6Lasalle Preparatory School500 students
- 7Geraldine J Mann School425 students
- 8Seventy Ninth Street School404 students
- Enrollment+17.2%
- Teachers−5.4%
- Students per teacher+32.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+29.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory