# MIDDLE EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585006353`
- **School name**: MIDDLE EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
- **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)816-4010
- **Wikidata QID**: Q20657329 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Early_College_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 302
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.7%

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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 84.0% (cohort of 73)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 77)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 37

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 47.5% (153 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.5% (67 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 11.8%
- **Black/African American**: 1.9%
- **Asian**: 72.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 8.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.3% — 54 students
- **English Learners**: 8.7% — 27 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 29 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,414
- **Federal share**: $3,156
- **State + local share**: $29,258
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 312
### 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

### graduation rate
- **LEWIS J BENNETT HIGH SCHOOL OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLGY** — 0.0 mi away, 87% (this school: 84%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 1.4 mi away, 95% (this school: 84%)
- **TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 92% (this school: 84%)
- **MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 88% (this school: 84%)
- **BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS** — 2.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 84%)

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