13 public K-12 schools in Cheektowaga from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cheektowaga has more public-school enrollment than 69% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cheektowaga's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
Cheektowaga's list includes 2 elementary, 3 middle, and 4 high-school campuses, plus 4 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
Cheektowaga's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 22nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 91st percentile. The 69-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.
Cheektowaga school enrollment ranges from 299 students (lowest) to 963 students (highest), a spread of 664 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Cleveland Hill High School | 51 |
| 2. | Maryvale Middle School | 44 |
| 3. | Cleveland Hill Middle School | 44 |
| 4. | Maryvale High School | 39 |
| 5. | John F Kennedy Senior High School | 39 |
| 6. | Cheektowaga Middle School | 35 |
| 7. | Maryvale Intermediate School | 33 |
| 8. | John F Kennedy Middle School | 32 |
| 9. | Cheektowaga High School | 30 |
| 10. | Cleveland Hill Elementary School | 25 |
| 11. | Maryvale Primary School | 24 |
| 12. | Theodore Roosevelt School | 24 |
| 13. | Union East Elementary School | 23 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Cleveland Hill High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cheektowaga schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Cheektowaga has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,886 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.6:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
