# COMMUNITY SCHOOL #53

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585000346`
- **School name**: COMMUNITY SCHOOL #53
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14208
- **Address**: 329 ROEHRER AVE
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.91269, -78.84867
- **Phone**: (716)816-3330

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 464
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 48
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Comprehensive Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 1
  - EM Growth: 1
  - 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 82.5% (386 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.8% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 49.2% (226 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 9.5%
- **Black/African American**: 7.5%
- **Asian**: 75.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.4% — 89 students
- **English Learners**: 6.1% — 28 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 38 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,373
- **Federal share**: $4,497
- **State + local share**: $25,876
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 461
### 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**: $28,578
- **Poverty rate**: 38.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.1%
- **Unemployment**: 11.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $869
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.8 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 101
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.59 miles (1257 FILLMORE AVENUE)

### 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**: 3.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY** — 0.4 mi away, 0.74% (this school: 1.31%)
- **LEONARDO DA VINCI HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.31%)
- **BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.31%)
- **MARTIN LUTHER KING JR #48** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.31%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.31%)

### ela proficiency
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 76% (this school: 12%)
- **BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 18% (this school: 12%)
- **DR GEORGE BLACKMAN ECC** — 1.5 mi away, 20% (this school: 12%)
- **BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 20% (this school: 12%)
- **HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY** — 1.6 mi away, 13% (this school: 12%)

### math proficiency
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 84.8% (this school: 15.5%)
- **BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 20.4% (this school: 15.5%)
- **DR GEORGE BLACKMAN ECC** — 1.5 mi away, 19% (this school: 15.5%)
- **HARVEY AUSTIN SCHOOL #97** — 1.6 mi away, 16.8% (this school: 15.5%)
- **REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 28.67% (this school: 15.5%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/community-school-53-buffalo
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/community-school-53-buffalo/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/community-school-53-buffalo/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/community-school-53-buffalo/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/community-school-53-buffalo/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/community-school-53-buffalo/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/community-school-53-buffalo/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/community-school-53-buffalo/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/community-school-53-buffalo/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/community-school-53-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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