BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL

BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL operates as a modestly sized four-year high school in BUFFALO, New York, operated by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 502 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 61 schools in total, collectively educating 29,425 students. BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 11% White, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 95% of students at BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.1%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Erie County put median household earnings sit near $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PS 84, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. BURGARD HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 502). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 73% to 51% over that span.

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