# SOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360003604337`
- **School name**: SOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14210
- **Address**: 154 S OGDEN ST
- **District**: SOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3600036`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 42.86300, -78.80350
- **Phone**: (716)826-7213

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 912
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 68
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 1
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 38.3% (341 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 36.0% (326 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 2.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.1%
- **Black/African American**: 3.3%
- **Asian**: 28.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 51.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 62.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 2.0% — 18 students
- **English Learners**: 1.8% — 16 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: N/A
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,659,864

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $39,663
- **Poverty rate**: 22.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $845
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.9 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 104
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.35 miles (GERMANIA STREET RIGHT OF WAY SOUTH BUFFALO)

### 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**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.77%)
- **LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 0.77%)
- **DISCOVERY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.77%)
- **JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.77%)
- **THEODORE ROOSEVELT SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 0.59% (this school: 0.77%)

### ela proficiency
- **WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 37% (this school: 35%)
- **GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 35%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 76% (this school: 35%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 4.8 mi away, 59% (this school: 35%)
- **BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.8 mi away, 39% (this school: 35%)

### math proficiency
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 84.8% (this school: 59%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 4.8 mi away, 65% (this school: 59%)
- **MARYVALE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.8 mi away, 62% (this school: 59%)
- **WINDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.8 mi away, 73% (this school: 59%)
- **EGGERT ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 73% (this school: 59%)

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