# WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360105506298`
- **School name**: WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14213
- **Address**: 113 LAFAYETTE AVE
- **District**: WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3601055`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 42.91972, -78.89454
- **Phone**: (716)923-1534

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 498
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.1% (112 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 24.3% (123 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 6
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 25.3%
- **Black/African American**: 27.5%
- **Asian**: 27.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 14.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 5.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.1% — 56 students
- **English Learners**: 22.1% — 112 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,318
- **Federal share**: $0
- **State + local share**: $12,318
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 507
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,021,401

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,032
- **Poverty rate**: 32.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.7%
- **Unemployment**: 6.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,073
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.1 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 10
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 103
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.38 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**: 5.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED** — 1.9 mi away, 71% (this school: 45%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 76% (this school: 45%)
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 3.2 mi away, 57% (this school: 45%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 4.4 mi away, 59% (this school: 45%)
- **THOMAS A EDISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.3 mi away, 46% (this school: 45%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED** — 1.9 mi away, 68% (this school: 49%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 84.8% (this school: 49%)
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 3.2 mi away, 62% (this school: 49%)
- **KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 56.67% (this school: 49%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 4.4 mi away, 65% (this school: 49%)

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