DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18

Set in BUFFALO, New York, DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community, one of the schools within BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 475 students across grades pre-K through 8.

Within BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 61 schools and 29,425 students, DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 logs that 36% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 33% Black, 23% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 5% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 logs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Erie County's rate of about 51%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.6%; actual is 18.2%, a gap of -21.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Erie County) reports that 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), DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FRANK A SEDITA SCHOOL #30, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DR A PANTOJA COMM SCH EXCLLNCE -#18 at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 28.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 496 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 10% to 4% over that span.

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