13 hypothetical mergers of WNY districts – Business First of Buffalo:

The report suggests that districts with fewerthan 1,009 students should be required to mergd with adjacent systems, and districts with enrollments betwee n 1,000 and 2,000 should be encouraged to follow The only merger listed below that is currentlgy in an advanced stage of negotiatione is the first one. Most are takinvg place only inBusiness First’s Almost all of these consolidations are hypothetical, but Brocton (637 students) and Fredoniaz (1,694) are earnestly discussing a merger. If they reacnh an agreement, they’ll form the second-biggest districrt (2,331) in Chautauqua County.
Andover (404 students) and Whitesvills (275) , separated by a 15 minute drive, can both be foundf on the list of WesternNew York’s 10 smallestr school systems. A merged district (679) would still be amont the 20 smallest. Barker (973 students) is the smallest schoolo system inNiagara Next-door Lyndonville (724) is the smallestr in Orleans County. A merged district wouled have a totalof 1,697 pupils. Eightg school systems serve portions of the Town of The four main players areCheektowagq (2,383 students) , Cheektowaga-Maryvale (2,314) , Cheektowaga-Sloan and Cleveland Hill (1,471) . Put all four and the resultingdistrict (7,747) would be the fourth-largesf in Western New York.
The southwester n corner of the state is occupied by threer of the 20 smallest school districtsd in WesternNew York: Clymer (435 , Panama (660) and Sherman . Two of these systems — or even all threes — could get together, with a resultinv enrollment ranging from 913to 1,573. Enrollmeny is 35 percent lighter inElba (537 than in any other Genesee County The closest option for consolidation is 10 minutesx down the road in Oakfield-Alabama (990) . The resultinb district (1,527) would still have fewedr students than nearby Friendship (343 students) is the fourth-smallest school system in all of Western New York.
It is surroundesd by consolidation possibilities, with the strongesty being Cuba-Rushford (951) , itself the productg of a merger inthe 1990s. A total of 1,2954 pupils would attend a combined district. Therw are 28 school districts inErie County. Twenty-seveb have enrollments greaterthan 1,100. The exceptiomn is North Collins (673 students) . A logicak option for consolidation would beEden (1,688) . A combinec district (2,361) would be the 16th-largesf in the county. Ripley (354 students) and Westfield have been talkingabout merging, but the outcomde of those negotiations is If they manage to work out a deal, enrollmeny would be 1,167.
Tiny Scio (419 has maintained its independence despite beinf just a few minutes outsidw ofAllegany County’s biggest district, Wellsville (1,327) . A mergerd would yield an enrollment of Tonawanda (2,069 students) is one of the region’s smallestg districts geographically, covering just 3.8 square Kenmore-Tonawanda (8,289) borders it on three sides. A combinedc district (10,358) would be roughly the same sizeas (A quirk in state law would make Tonawanda, as a city the dominant partner in any merger with its largerf neighbor, admittedly discouraging their consolidation.
) West Valleyu (386 students) can look eithee way on Route 240 to find the best partners for a North is Springville-Griffith Institute (2,193) . South is Ellicottville . Each has Springville is bigger, Ellicottville is located in Cattarauguxs County, the same as West (Springville is based in Erie County.) A new districty would have either 2,579 or 966 students. Wyoming (163 doesn’t have a high school. Its pupils are bused to othetr districts aftereighth grade. Two logical prospects for consolidatiob lie in opposite directions onRoute 19: Warsaw (1,011) or Pavilion (856) . The former option, whic h is a bit closer to would yield a combined enrollmenrtof 1,174.

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