# HEALTH SCIENCES CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360102206239`
- **School name**: HEALTH SCIENCES CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14209
- **Address**: 1140 ELLICOTT ST
- **District**: HEALTH SCIENCES CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3601022`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 42.90907, -78.86511
- **Phone**: (716)888-4080
- **Wikidata QID**: Q17512787 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Sciences_Charter_School
- **Founded**: 2009

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 452
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS CCCR: 1
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Attendance: 1
  - HS Grad Rate: 2
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - HS Core Performance: 2
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 91.0% (cohort of 85)
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 95)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 4

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 68.1% (245 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 23.1% (99 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**: 3.6%
- **Black/African American**: 1.8%
- **Asian**: 87.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.8%
- **Two or more races**: 4.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.8% — 55 students
- **English Learners**: 1.6% — 7 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,580
- **Federal share**: $1,748
- **State + local share**: $10,832
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 429
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,610,390

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $26,886
- **Poverty rate**: 23.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.0%
- **Unemployment**: 10.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $895
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.5 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 97
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.00 miles (JEFFERSON GENESEE SITE 27)

### 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**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LEONARDO DA VINCI HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.86%)
- **BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.86%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.86%)
- **STANLEY MAKOWSKI EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER** — 0.7 mi away, 1.45% (this school: 1.86%)
- **COMMUNITY SCHOOL #53** — 0.9 mi away, 1.31% (this school: 1.86%)

### graduation rate
- **LEONARDO DA VINCI HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 100% (this school: 91%)
- **BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS** — 0.4 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 99% (this school: 91%)
- **TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 3.2 mi away, 95% (this school: 91%)

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

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