BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL

BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL is a very small elementary-level community in BUFFALO, New York, run under BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL. The school serves 114 students in grades K through 3. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 74% below typical.

BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL sits inside BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment. Other groups include 25% White, 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 3% 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 somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 74.0%; this one comes in at 13.5%, -60.5 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, 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%. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, BUFFALO COMMONS CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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