# DISCOVERY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/discovery-school-buffalo

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585003478`
- **School name**: DISCOVERY SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14220
- **Address**: 911 ABBOTT RD
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.83990, -78.80930
- **Phone**: (716)816-4922

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 541
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 45
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 56.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 1
  - 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 46.1% (251 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.4% (106 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.3%
- **Black/African American**: 3.6%
- **Asian**: 11.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 65.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 51.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.9% — 114 students
- **English Learners**: 0.9% — 5 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 32 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 29 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 24 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,334
- **Federal share**: $3,165
- **State + local share**: $23,170
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 545
### 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**: $90,852
- **Poverty rate**: 2.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,080
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.1 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 85
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.68 miles (GERMANIA STREET RIGHT OF WAY SOUTH BUFFALO)

### 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**: 2.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 35% (this school: 34%)
- **GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 34%)
- **SOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 35% (this school: 34%)
- **BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 39% (this school: 34%)
- **WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 37% (this school: 34%)

### math proficiency
- **SOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 59% (this school: 55.8%)
- **WINDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 73% (this school: 55.8%)
- **EGGERT ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 73% (this school: 55.8%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 5.1 mi away, 84.8% (this school: 55.8%)
- **BIG TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.3 mi away, 69% (this school: 55.8%)

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