Enrollment
371
Elementary
DISTRICT 491 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360585006650
BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL
340 FOUGERON ST, BUFFALO, NY 14211 · (716) 816-4140 · Erie County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL371 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
358 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 27 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 25 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 39 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 5% larger than its 8th grade class (39).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
21.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
25.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.0% | 25.3% |
| 2023-24 | 18.0% | 20.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
19.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL
BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL's state test result (19.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL this school | 371 | 96.5% | 19.9% |
| HIGHGATE HEIGHTS BUFFALO | 407 | 92.9% | 13.9% |
| WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL BUFFALO | 342 | 92.4% | 37.9% |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING JR #48 BUFFALO | 413 | 96.1% | 11.9% |
| PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY BUFFALO | 396 | 96.5% | 18.7% |
| HARVEY AUSTIN SCHOOL #97 BUFFALO | 487 | 95.3% | 13.9% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.9% | #2,238 of 2,335 | #92 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.3% | #2,181 of 2,342 ▲ 43 | #87 of 115 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #2,274 of 2,343 ▼ 59 | #96 of 115 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 371 | #1,539 of 2,585 | #88 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.7:1 | #132 of 2,338 | #9 of 119 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.3% | #927 of 2,388 | #44 of 119 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.5% | #112 of 2,534 | #6 of 122 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
371
+27 (+8%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
was 9.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 371 | 42.7 | 8.7:1 | 96% (358) |
| 2023-24 | 326 | 35.7 | 9.1:1 | 93% (303) |
| 2022-23 | 344 | 33.9 | 10.1:1 | 95% (326) |
| 2020-21 | 344 | 36 | 9.6:1 | 92% (315) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
About BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL
BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL is a small elementary school found in BUFFALO, New York. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 371 students in pre-K through 8.
The 61 schools of BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, including BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL, enroll 29,425 students.
A majority of students at BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL, 61%, are Black. Next come 25% Asian, 5% White, 5% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 13% Black. BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 56%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Dividing enrollment by its 42.7 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 8.7:1. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. Eligible students account for 96% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. On average, public schools in Erie County report 51%.
allk12 grades BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL a D. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 39.5%. BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL posts 19.9%, 19.6 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Across Erie County, median household income is about $72,839, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The public schools of Erie County number 226 and enroll about 122,519.
PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks 4th of 6 nearby schools, at 19.9% versus a 30.6% average.
The federal government classifies BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL's location as City: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL went from 344 students to 371.
Posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater are welcome on this page. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
- FREDERICK OLMSTED #156High · 928 students
- MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 862 students
- SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 801 students
Other schools in BUFFALO
- CHARTER SCHOOL FOR APPLIED TECHNOLOGIESCombined · 2,260 students
- KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,235 students
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 1,120 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
Nearby schools
- PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 434
- EAST COMMUNITY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 386
- HARVEY AUSTIN SCHOOL #970.5 mi · 487
- PATHWAYS ACADEMY0.5 mi · 110
- ERIE COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY0.7 mi · 13
- PS 900.7 mi · 179
Frequently asked questions
About BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOLHow large is BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 371 students in grades PK-08.
Is BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
Approximately 8.7:1 students per teacher at BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
How diverse is BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL reports a student body of 5% White, 5% Hispanic, 61% Black, 25% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL in?
BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL is part of BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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