# CHARTER SCHOOL OF INQUIRY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360113506543`
- **School name**: CHARTER SCHOOL OF INQUIRY
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14222
- **Address**: 404 EDISON ST
- **District**: CHARTER SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (LEAID `3601135`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 42.93402, -78.80272
- **Phone**: (716)833-3250

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 276
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 59.1% (169 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 14.3% (41 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 8.7%
- **Black/African American**: 4.2%
- **Asian**: 82.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 4.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 3.5% — 10 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,686
- **Federal share**: $2,704
- **State + local share**: $14,983
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 287
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,187,279

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $49,571
- **Poverty rate**: 20.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.9%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $954
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 37.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.2 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 90
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.06 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**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 0.4 mi away, 59% (this school: 15%)
- **PS 82** — 0.4 mi away, 22% (this school: 15%)
- **KING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 23% (this school: 15%)
- **CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 40% (this school: 15%)
- **CLEVELAND HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 42% (this school: 15%)

### math proficiency
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 0.4 mi away, 65% (this school: 25.5%)
- **KING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 29.75% (this school: 25.5%)
- **CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 49% (this school: 25.5%)
- **CLEVELAND HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 46.75% (this school: 25.5%)
- **AMHERST MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 80.2% (this school: 25.5%)

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