Williamsville North High School, Williamsville NY

Original Research by School Decision on Williamsville North High School

Williamsville North High School is a large public high school serving roughly one thousand three hundred students across grades nine through twelve in the Williamsville Central School District, a four-town district encompassing Williamsville, Amherst, Cheektowaga, and Clarence. The school's campus sits on Hopkins Road in a suburban setting, distinct from the walkable village center of Williamsville that clusters around Main Street.

The school's enrollment is substantially white, with a meaningful Asian student population and smaller shares of Black and Hispanic students. About a quarter of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of economic diversity. The school does not report special education or English learner rates in available data.

State testing data was not reported for this school. No graduation rate is available from the provided records. This gap in reported data makes it difficult to assess academic proficiency or college and career readiness outcomes through state measures. A parent may want to reach out to the school directly to understand current assessment results and completion rates, and to see what academic indicators the district tracks internally.

The Williamsville area itself is a compact, historically rooted incorporated village about eight miles northeast of Buffalo, marked by preserved 19th-century mill-town architecture along Main Street and a strong neighborhood character. The village is comparatively walkable for a Buffalo suburb, with a vibrant main commercial corridor anchored by locally owned shops, restaurants, and civic anchors like Island Park and the Williamsville Branch Library. Residential real estate in the zip code ranges from modest to mid-range for the market; median home values have held relatively steady while rental rates remain moderate compared to national benchmarks. The area is densely developed and built out, with recent growth taking the form of infill multifamily housing along Main Street rather than new single-family sprawl.

The district has undertaken a multi-phase air conditioning capital project to equip elementary schools that lacked it, with construction extending through 2027 and 2028. A townwide property reassessment in both Amherst and Clarence has shifted school tax distribution, so individual homeowners' tax bills have moved up, down, or flat depending on their new assessed value; this is a lasting change anyone buying in the district should factor into long-term cost estimates. The school board voted in February 2025 to keep existing high school start times unchanged after a lengthy review of a later start proposal, settling a question that had generated parental debate over transportation, athletics, and after-school work.

No information was available on course breadth, AP offerings, career pathways, staffing, or specific program features at this school. Prospective families should visit the school website or contact the district directly to understand what academic and career pathways are available, what clubs and activities the school supports, and how the school approaches college and career counseling.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

95.0%Cohort of 343 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

24 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

36 tested

69.4%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

26 tested · Grade 10

88.5%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

22 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

77.3%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

29 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

96.6%

scored 3 or higher

Precalculus

14 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

42 tested · Grade 10

71.4%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

74 tested · Grade 10

90.5%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

24 tested · Grade 10

83.3%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

27 tested · Grade 10

81.5%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

38 tested

86.8%

scored 3 or higher

English

Seminar

23 tested · Grade 10

95.7%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

European History

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Human Geography

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

108 tested · Grade 10

82.4%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

117 tested · Grade 10

94.0%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Chinese Language and Culture

3 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

French Language and Culture

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

African American Studies

33 tested

97.0%

scored 3 or higher

Language and Comp

78 tested

84.6%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

55 tested

87.3%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

5 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

158 tested

87.3%

scored 3 or higher

World History

79 tested · Grade 10

93.7%

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	331	90.0%
Social Studies	308	92.0%
Math	178	95.0%
Science	105	91.0%

Math

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 82% · ▼ 82 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 71% · ▼ 71 pts below district

▼ 48 pts below state median · ▼ 34 pts below county median

Science

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 72% · ▼ 72 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

This schoolWILLIAMSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

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.