# KING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360003504336`
- **School name**: KING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14211
- **Address**: 156 NEWBURGH AVE
- **District**: KING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3600035`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 42.91892, -78.80921
- **Phone**: (716)891-7912

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 419
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 3
  - 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 45.5% (193 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 33.7% (135 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 1.2%
- **Black/African American**: 9.1%
- **Asian**: 83.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.7% — 51 students
- **English Learners**: 5.0% — 20 students

## Programs & enrichment
- International Baccalaureate (IB)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,643
- **Federal share**: $1,536
- **State + local share**: $15,107
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 401
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,026,895

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,839
- **Poverty rate**: 23.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.7%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,078
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 43.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.7 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 113
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.77 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**: 2.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BUFFALO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL II** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.75%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.75%)
- **PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.75%)
- **CHARTER SCHOOL OF INQUIRY** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.75%)
- **PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION** — 1.4 mi away, 1.28% (this school: 1.75%)

### ela proficiency
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 0.9 mi away, 59% (this school: 23%)
- **WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 37% (this school: 23%)
- **BUFFALO UNITED CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 26% (this school: 23%)
- **CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 40% (this school: 23%)
- **CLEVELAND HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 42% (this school: 23%)

### math proficiency
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 0.9 mi away, 65% (this school: 29.75%)
- **WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 54% (this school: 29.75%)
- **CLEVELAND HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 49% (this school: 29.75%)
- **CLEVELAND HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 46.75% (this school: 29.75%)
- **UNION EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 35% (this school: 29.75%)

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

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