# LEWIS J BENNETT HIGH SCHOOL OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLGY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585006611`
- **School name**: LEWIS J BENNETT HIGH SCHOOL OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLGY
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14214
- **Address**: 2885 MAIN ST
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.94398, -78.83268
- **Phone**: (716)816-4250

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 469
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.0%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 67)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 10

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 87.2% (312 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.2%
- **Black/African American**: 10.2%
- **Asian**: 59.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 86.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.7% — 42 students
- **English Learners**: 5.8% — 25 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### 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**: $99,430
- **Poverty rate**: 8.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 55.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,138
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.6 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 92
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.23 miles (240 KENSINGTON 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**: 6.38319 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MIDDLE EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.92%)
- **DR GEORGE BLACKMAN ECC** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.92%)
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.92%)
- **PS 84** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.92%)
- **HIGHGATE HEIGHTS** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.92%)

### graduation rate
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 1.4 mi away, 95% (this school: 87%)
- **TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 92% (this school: 87%)
- **MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 88% (this school: 87%)
- **BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS** — 2.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 87%)
- **AMHERST CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 96% (this school: 87%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lewis-j-bennett-high-school-of-innovative-technolgy-buffalo
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lewis-j-bennett-high-school-of-innovative-technolgy-buffalo/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lewis-j-bennett-high-school-of-innovative-technolgy-buffalo/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lewis-j-bennett-high-school-of-innovative-technolgy-buffalo/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lewis-j-bennett-high-school-of-innovative-technolgy-buffalo/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lewis-j-bennett-high-school-of-innovative-technolgy-buffalo/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lewis-j-bennett-high-school-of-innovative-technolgy-buffalo/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lewis-j-bennett-high-school-of-innovative-technolgy-buffalo/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lewis-j-bennett-high-school-of-innovative-technolgy-buffalo/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lewis-j-bennett-high-school-of-innovative-technolgy-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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