BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL

BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL is an elementary school of tight-knit scale in BUFFALO, New York, operated by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 371 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Within BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 61 schools and 29,425 students, BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 25% Asian, 5% White, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Erie County's rate of about 51%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.5%; actual is 19.9%, a gap of -19.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Erie County shows median household earnings sit near $72,839, 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), BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

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