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Lancaster Central School District, NY: schools, enrollment and spending
Lancaster Central School District runs 7 public schools with 5,434 students in grades K to 12. Its ratio of 12.4 students per teacher is 1.0 higher than the New York figure of 11.4.Listed in NCES data as "LANCASTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT".
At a glance
- Schools
- 7
- Students
- 5,434
- Teachers (FTE)
- 438
- Students per teacher
- 12.4
- NY: 11.4 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 177 Central Ave, Lancaster, NY 14086
- Phone
- (716)686-3201
- County
- Erie County
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- Grades offered
- K to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 3616680
- State district ID
- NY-141901060000
- Total staff (FTE)
- 872
- School counselors (FTE)
- 11.0About 494 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 13.0
Students per teacher compared
This district12.4
New York11.4
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (5,529), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $111.7 million
- Federal revenue
- $5.6 million
- State revenue
- $45.3 million
- Local revenue
- $60.8 million
- Total spending
- $114.7 million
- Spending per pupil
- $20,748
- Salaries
- $58.9 million51.4% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $51.9 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 5.0%
- State: 40.5%
- Local: 54.4%
New York overall
- Federal: 4.5%
- State: 37.7%
- Local: 57.8%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$20,748
New York$30,973
United States$16,826
Schools in Lancaster Central School District
By level: 1 high, 2 middle, 4 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Como Park Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 3 | 352 | 11.4 |
| Court Street Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 3 | 285 | 10.6 |
| Hillview Elementary School | Elementary | K to 3 | 451 | 12.2 |
| John a Sciole Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 3 | 401 | 11.5 |
| Lancaster High School | High | 9 to 12 | 1,682 | 12.3 |
| Lancaster Middle School | Middle | 7 to 8 | 876 | 12.7 |
| William Street School | Middle | 4 to 6 | 1,274 | 13.0 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Erie County
- Buffalo City School District 30,077 students
- Williamsville Central School District 9,718 students
- Kenmore-Tonawanda Union Free School District 6,505 students
- West Seneca Central School District 6,011 students
- Orchard Park Central School District 4,835 students
- Frontier Central School District 4,549 students
- Clarence Central School District 4,122 students
- Sweet Home Central School District 3,850 students
- Hamburg Central School District 3,361 students
- Amherst Central School District 3,033 students
- Grand Island Central School District 2,854 students
- Cheektowaga Central School District 2,373 students
- Cheektowaga-Maryvale Union Free School District 2,314 students
- Charter School for Applied Technologies 2,260 students
- Lackawanna City School District 2,186 students
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.