LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Set in BUFFALO, New York, LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is a tight-knit four-year high school, part of BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 475 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 29% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

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

Demographically, LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 28% Black, 27% Asian, 10% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 6% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.4%; this one delivers 23.2%.

In the broader community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. LAFAYETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 149% since 2018, when it stood at 191 (now 475). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 38% to 32% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.