Williamsville East High School, East Amherst NY

Original Research by School Decision on Williamsville East High School

Williamsville East High School is a mid-sized public high school serving grades nine through twelve in East Amherst, a suburban hamlet in Erie County's Northtowns region. The school sits on a single campus along the district's geography, serving a community marked by established residential neighborhoods, commercial corridors, and parks.

The student body reflects the demographics of suburban Erie County, with a substantial plurality of white students and a significant Asian student population, alongside smaller numbers of Black and Hispanic students. About one in six students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating that while the school serves a generally affluent community, economic diversity exists within it. No data on special education enrollment or English learner populations was available, so a reader should ask the school directly about those support services.

State testing results and graduation rate data were not provided, which is common when data have not yet been released or are pending publication by the New York State Department of Education. The school's academic standing relative to other Erie County districts cannot be assessed without these metrics. A parent investigating this school should request current performance data directly from the school or the district, particularly proficiency rates in core subjects and the four-year graduation rate.

The school is part of Williamsville Central School District, which serves the towns of Amherst and Clarence and operates a network of elementary, middle, and high schools. The district recently completed a multi-phase air conditioning project for elementary buildings, financed in a way that did not raise the school tax rate. A significant townwide property reassessment in Amherst and Clarence moved those communities to full market value assessment, which has reshaped how individual school tax bills are calculated; some homeowners saw bills rise, some fall, depending on their new assessed values. Start times for the district remain unchanged after the board declined a proposal in early 2025 to shift high school schedules later.

The housing market in the East Amherst area is mid-to-upper-priced for the region, with home values reflecting suburban demand and proximity to employment and educational institutions. Rental housing is available at moderate rates as well. The area is characterized by new single-family construction alongside an already well-developed landscape, with builders active in the zip code. The region offers reasonable access to shopping, dining, and recreation via Transit Road corridors and parks like Paradise Park, and public transit is available through NFTA-Metro routes serving the Eastern Hills Mall and other nodes.

Program offerings, staffing ratios, specific course availability, and discipline data were not provided in the available materials. A parent should contact the school's main office or visit its website to learn about specific academic tracks, AP or honors courses, career and technical programs, athletic offerings, clubs, and the overall instructional approach. Without these details, the full picture of what daily academic and social life looks like at Williamsville East cannot be drawn here.

See more original research from School Decision →

Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

97.0%Cohort of 273 students · Class of 2021

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,253 schools plotted. 14 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Advanced Placement & IB

25 subjects offered · 2023-24

Each card is one AP or IB subject. The headline number is the share of students scoring 3 or higher on the exam — the threshold for college credit at most universities. The bar below each rate shows the underlying distribution across performance levels.

Score:12· no credit345· extremely well qualified

Math and Computer Science

Calculus AB

34 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

45 tested · Grade 10

93.3%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

28 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

60.7%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

21 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

90.5%

scored 3 or higher

Precalculus

20 tested · Grade 10

85.0%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

63 tested · Grade 10

92.1%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

36 tested · Grade 10

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

39 tested · Grade 10

92.3%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

52 tested · Grade 10

63.5%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

38 tested

81.6%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

European History

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

42 tested

95.2%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

68 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

79.4%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

74 tested · Grade 10

90.5%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Chinese Language and Culture

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

23 tested

87.0%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

11 tested · Grade 10

45.5%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art Drawing

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

86 tested · Grade 10

75.6%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

21 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

5 tested

80.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

56 tested

96.4%

scored 3 or higher

World History

71 tested · Grade 10

91.5%

scored 3 or higher

New York Regents Exams

4 courses reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Ela	253	96.0%
Social Studies	208	96.0%
Math	143	85.0%
Science	97	90.0%

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.