# BUFFALO UNITED CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007105538`
- **School name**: BUFFALO UNITED CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14214
- **Address**: 325 MANHATTAN AVE
- **District**: BUFFALO UNITED CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3600071`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 42.94160, -78.82830
- **Phone**: (716)835-9862

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 465
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 42
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 4
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 45.5% (291 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 146.2% (766 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.4%
- **Black/African American**: 2.4%
- **Asian**: 74.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.5% — 76 students
- **English Learners**: 2.3% — 12 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,489
- **Federal share**: $2,354
- **State + local share**: $15,135
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 522
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,049,699

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $99,430
- **Poverty rate**: 8.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 55.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,138
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.9 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 94
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.13 miles (452 NORTHUMBERLAND)

### 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**: 6.38319 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MIDDLE EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.95%)
- **LEWIS J BENNETT HIGH SCHOOL OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLGY** — 0.3 mi away, 0.92% (this school: 0.95%)
- **PS 84** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.95%)
- **DR GEORGE BLACKMAN ECC** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.95%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.95%)

### ela proficiency
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 1.2 mi away, 59% (this school: 26%)
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 1.3 mi away, 57% (this school: 26%)
- **WINDERMERE BLVD SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 42% (this school: 26%)
- **PS 81** — 2.1 mi away, 28% (this school: 26%)
- **TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 39% (this school: 26%)

### math proficiency
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 1.2 mi away, 65% (this school: 25%)
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 1.3 mi away, 62% (this school: 25%)
- **CHARTER SCHOOL OF INQUIRY** — 1.4 mi away, 25.5% (this school: 25%)
- **WINDERMERE BLVD SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 50% (this school: 25%)
- **KING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 29.75% (this school: 25%)

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

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