# RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585006609`
- **School name**: RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14207
- **Address**: 51 ONTARIO ST
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.94640, -78.90540
- **Phone**: (716)816-4530

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 285
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Comprehensive Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 1
  - HS CCCR: 1
  - HS ELP: 2
  - HS Core Performance: 2
  - 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**: 46.0% (cohort of 94)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 3)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 87.0% (280 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.2% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (8 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.6%
- **Black/African American**: 10.6%
- **Asian**: 43.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 12.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.5% — 15 students
- **English Learners**: 11.4% — 38 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $33,314
- **Federal share**: $3,532
- **State + local share**: $29,782
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 333
### 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**: $42,500
- **Poverty rate**: 24.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.9%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $877
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 39.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.3 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 73
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.42 miles (BLACK ROCK YARD CSX)

### 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**: 6.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PFC WILLIAM J GRABIARZ #79** — 0.8 mi away, 0.55% (this school: 1.2%)
- **MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0.74% (this school: 1.2%)
- **CHARTER SCHOOL FOR APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES** — 1.5 mi away, 0.78% (this school: 1.2%)
- **PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.2%)
- **NATIVE AMERICAN MAGNET** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.2%)

### graduation rate
- **MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 88% (this school: 46%)
- **TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 92% (this school: 46%)
- **LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 50% (this school: 46%)
- **KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 89% (this school: 46%)
- **INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL (THE)** — 3.1 mi away, 72% (this school: 46%)

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