# LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585006593`
- **School name**: LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14213
- **Address**: 370 LAFAYETTE AVE
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.92086, -78.88473
- **Phone**: (716)816-4358
- **Wikidata QID**: Q41498035 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_International_High_School
- **Founded**: 2016

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 475
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 62
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.8%

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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 50.0% (cohort of 118)
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 93)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 98.2% (480 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.5% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.7% (12 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.1%
- **Black/African American**: 23.2%
- **Asian**: 40.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 9.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.0% — 22 students
- **English Learners**: 40.7% — 179 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,998
- **Federal share**: $4,239
- **State + local share**: $31,759
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 440
### 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**: $87,222
- **Poverty rate**: 21.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 60.3%
- **Unemployment**: 4.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,364
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.3 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 10
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 107
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.55 miles (159 PORTER)

### 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**: 4.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 1.32% (this school: 2.5%)
- **WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.5%)
- **NATIVE AMERICAN MAGNET** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.5%)
- **DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.5%)
- **INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE)** — 1.2 mi away, 0.33% (this school: 2.5%)

### graduation rate
- **INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE)** — 1.2 mi away, 72% (this school: 50%)
- **MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 88% (this school: 50%)
- **HEALTH SCIENCES CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 91% (this school: 50%)
- **BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS** — 1.3 mi away, 92% (this school: 50%)
- **LEONARDO DA VINCI HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 100% (this school: 50%)

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

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