HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY

Set in BUFFALO, New York, HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY is a mid-sized primary school, overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 550 students across grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 24% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 61 schools with combined enrollment of 29,425 students; HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY is among them.

On the student-mix side, HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY records that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.0%; this one comes in at 11.1%, -27.9 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate 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 HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY is one.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR #48 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 16.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY's enrollment has expanded 9% since 2018, when it stood at 503 (now 550). Asian enrollment moved from 15% to 37% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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