# BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585000297`
- **School name**: BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14209
- **Address**: 450 MASTEN AVE
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 5–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.91450, -78.86050
- **Phone**: (716)816-4220
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4985648 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Academy_for_Visual_and_Performing_Arts
- **Founded**: 1976

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 617
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 70
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.2%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 89)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 11

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 70.9% (472 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 17.2% (99 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 11
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.1%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 55.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 21.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 67.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.8% — 131 students
- **English Learners**: 4.5% — 26 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 63 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 29 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $44,167,472
- **Federal share**: 26.5%
- **State share**: 62.7%
- **Local share**: 10.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,258,378

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,708
- **Poverty rate**: 15.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.9%
- **Unemployment**: 7.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $889
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.3 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 101
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.16 miles (TRINIDAD PARK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ECWA DIRECT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.25738 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **LEONARDO DA VINCI HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 100% (this school: 92%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 99% (this school: 92%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 2.8 mi away, 95% (this school: 92%)
- **CLEVELAND HILL HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.4 mi away, 93% (this school: 92%)
- **AMHERST CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.8 mi away, 96% (this school: 92%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/buffalo-academy-for-the-visual-performing-arts-buffalo
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/buffalo-academy-for-the-visual-performing-arts-buffalo/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/buffalo-academy-for-the-visual-performing-arts-buffalo/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/buffalo-academy-for-the-visual-performing-arts-buffalo/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/buffalo-academy-for-the-visual-performing-arts-buffalo/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/buffalo-academy-for-the-visual-performing-arts-buffalo/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/buffalo-academy-for-the-visual-performing-arts-buffalo/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/buffalo-academy-for-the-visual-performing-arts-buffalo/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/buffalo-academy-for-the-visual-performing-arts-buffalo/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/buffalo-academy-for-the-visual-performing-arts-buffalo/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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