# LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361644002836`
- **School name**: LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: LACKAWANNA, NY 14218
- **Address**: 550 MARTIN RD
- **District**: LACKAWANNA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3616440`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.81770, -78.80370
- **Phone**: (716)821-5610

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 444
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Comprehensive Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - 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 42.8% (180 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 33.0% (145 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.9%
- **Black/African American**: 2.6%
- **Asian**: 15.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 62.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 4.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.9% — 79 students
- **English Learners**: 20.2% — 89 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 49 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,500
- **Federal share**: $3,429
- **State + local share**: $27,071
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 440
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $43,859,487
- **Federal share**: 26.9%
- **State share**: 57.4%
- **Local share**: 15.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,291,795

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $57,569
- **Poverty rate**: 14.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.6%
- **Unemployment**: 2.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $907
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.5 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 68
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.04 miles (FORMER MUNICIPAL INCINERATOR)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.25738 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **TRUMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%)
- **GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%)
- **WINCHESTER-POTTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%)
- **DISCOVERY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%)
- **WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%)

### ela proficiency
- **GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 17%)
- **DISCOVERY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 34% (this school: 17%)
- **BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 39% (this school: 17%)
- **LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 35% (this school: 17%)
- **WINDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 17%)

### math proficiency
- **DISCOVERY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 55.8% (this school: 32.8%)
- **BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 53% (this school: 32.8%)
- **LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 36% (this school: 32.8%)
- **WINDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 73% (this school: 32.8%)
- **SOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 59% (this school: 32.8%)

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