BILINGUAL CENTER

As a tight-knit elementary-level community in BUFFALO, New York, BILINGUAL CENTER caters to 358 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

BILINGUAL CENTER is one of 61 schools operated by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that hosts 29,425 students overall.

Looking at the student body, BILINGUAL CENTER logs that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 6% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting BILINGUAL CENTER tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BILINGUAL CENTER falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.7%; this one comes in at 12.5%, -28.2 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Erie County put median household income runs about $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which BILINGUAL CENTER is one.

BUFFALO CREEK ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BILINGUAL CENTER ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 495 students in 2018 compared to 358 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 80% to 96% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 today.

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