# MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585005857`
- **School name**: MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14215
- **Address**: 646 E DELEVAN AVE
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.92243, -78.83243
- **Phone**: (716)816-4500
- **Website**: http://www.buffaloschools.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6786732 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math,_Science,_Technology_Preparatory_School
- **Founded**: 2006

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 438
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.7%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2021
- **Graduation Rate (Federal EDFacts)** (grade 12): 67.0% proficient — 141 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 67.0% (cohort of 141)
- **2019**: 52.0% (cohort of 140)
- **2018**: 52.0% (cohort of 152)
- **2017**: 52.0% (cohort of 140)
- **2016**: 52.0% (cohort of 99)

## SAT/ACT participation (2021)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 96.6% (518 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 10.0% (39 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 108.0% (420 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 11.0%
- **Black/African American**: 10.3%
- **Asian**: 68.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 3.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 37.8% — 147 students
- **English Learners**: 13.4% — 52 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 80 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 51 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 28 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2020)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,683
- **Federal share**: $3,414
- **State + local share**: $30,836
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 438
### 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**: $38,690
- **Poverty rate**: 18.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 5.4%
- **Unemployment**: 26.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $980
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.7 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 10
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 105
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.54 miles (858 E FERRY)

### 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**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE** — 0.2 mi away, 1.05% (this school: 2.06%)
- **PS 84** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.06%)
- **BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 1.09% (this school: 2.06%)
- **PS 61 ARTHUR O EVE SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION** — 0.7 mi away, 1.28% (this school: 2.06%)
- **PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY** — 0.8 mi away, 0.74% (this school: 2.06%)

### graduation rate
- **RESEARCH LABORATORY HS-BIOINFORMATIC** — 1.1 mi away, 83% (this school: 67%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 1.3 mi away, 95% (this school: 67%)
- **MIDDLE EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 84% (this school: 67%)
- **LEWIS J BENNETT HIGH SCHOOL OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLGY** — 1.5 mi away, 87% (this school: 67%)
- **BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS** — 1.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 67%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/math-science-technology-preparatory-school-at-197-buffalo
- **Performance**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/math-science-technology-preparatory-school-at-197-buffalo/performance
- **Finance**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/math-science-technology-preparatory-school-at-197-buffalo/finance
- **Demographics**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/math-science-technology-preparatory-school-at-197-buffalo/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/math-science-technology-preparatory-school-at-197-buffalo/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/math-science-technology-preparatory-school-at-197-buffalo/context
- **Attendance**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/math-science-technology-preparatory-school-at-197-buffalo/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/math-science-technology-preparatory-school-at-197-buffalo/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/math-science-technology-preparatory-school-at-197-buffalo/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/math-science-technology-preparatory-school-at-197-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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