Summary:
ZIP code 74028 has three schools serving 405 students: Depew Elementary School and Gypsy Public School serve prekindergarten through grade 8, while Depew High School serves grades 9–12. The clearest shared academic concern is mathematics: in 2025–2026, all three schools fell below the 25% state proficiency rate, with results of 21% at Depew Elementary, 8% at Depew High, and 3% at Gypsy.
Each school has a different subject-area strength. Depew High led all-grades English Language Arts I at 33%, 7 percentage points above the state rate; Gypsy was lowest at 10%, 16 points below the state. Depew Elementary led mathematics at 21%, though it remained 4 points below the state, while Gypsy was 22 points below. Science was Gypsy’s standout: its 50% proficiency rate was 20 points above the state and 26 points above Depew High’s 24%, the lowest school result. Depew High also reported 46% in U.S. History, 5 points above the state; no other school in this group reported that subject.
Recent changes were mixed rather than consistently upward. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA I fell at all three schools, including a 10-point drop at Gypsy; science rose 5 points at both Depew Elementary and Gypsy but fell 7 points at Depew High. SchoolDigger’s rankings rose for Depew Elementary, from the 49th percentile in 2020–2021 to the 69th in 2025–2026, while Depew High’s ranking moved from the 70th percentile in 2024–2025 to the 59th in 2025–2026; Gypsy’s available rankings are too old to show a recent trajectory. In 2024–2025, student–teacher ratios ranged from 12.8 at Gypsy to 19.8 at Depew Elementary, and free/reduced lunch eligible rates were about 68%–72%. Depew High also had a 97% graduation rate in 2024–2025, compared with 78% statewide. Because the schools serve different grade spans and Gypsy enrolls just 41 students, these comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like.
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