BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL

BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in BUFFALO, New York, overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 612 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 38% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL is one of 61 schools operated by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 29,425 students overall.

Demographically, BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 20% White, 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL reports 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Erie County's rate of about 51%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.2%; this one comes in at 17.1%, -30.2 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Erie County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BUFFALO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 21.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 750 (now 612). The Black share of enrollment fell from 61% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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