# HARVEY AUSTIN SCHOOL #97

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585005600`
- **School name**: HARVEY AUSTIN SCHOOL #97
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14211
- **Address**: 1405 SYCAMORE ST
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.90300, -78.82000
- **Phone**: (716)816-4460

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 487
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 56
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.3%

## 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 83.6% (422 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.5% (33 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 31.2% (158 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 11.2%
- **Black/African American**: 11.6%
- **Asian**: 68.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 3.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.3% — 103 students
- **English Learners**: 4.1% — 21 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,701
- **Federal share**: $3,815
- **State + local share**: $25,886
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 507
### 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**: $27,313
- **Poverty rate**: 36.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.5%
- **Unemployment**: 14.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $939
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 35.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.2 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 115
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.01 miles (1235 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**: 1.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.78%)
- **BUFFALO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL II** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.78%)
- **LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43** — 1.2 mi away, 1.29% (this school: 1.78%)
- **KING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 1.75% (this school: 1.78%)
- **WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.78%)

### ela proficiency
- **BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 18% (this school: 10%)
- **LOVEJOY DISCOVERY SCHOOL #43** — 1.2 mi away, 16% (this school: 10%)
- **KING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 23% (this school: 10%)
- **WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 37% (this school: 10%)
- **COMMUNITY SCHOOL #53** — 1.6 mi away, 12% (this school: 10%)

### math proficiency
- **BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 20.4% (this school: 16.8%)
- **KING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 29.75% (this school: 16.8%)
- **WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 54% (this school: 16.8%)
- **PS 82** — 1.9 mi away, 20% (this school: 16.8%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 2.0 mi away, 65% (this school: 16.8%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/harvey-austin-school-97-buffalo
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/harvey-austin-school-97-buffalo/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/harvey-austin-school-97-buffalo/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/harvey-austin-school-97-buffalo/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/harvey-austin-school-97-buffalo/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/harvey-austin-school-97-buffalo/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/harvey-austin-school-97-buffalo/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/harvey-austin-school-97-buffalo/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/harvey-austin-school-97-buffalo/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/harvey-austin-school-97-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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