LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in BUFFALO, New York, overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 638 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 44% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

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

On demographics, LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 24% Black, 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Erie County's rate of about 51%.

With demographic context factored in, LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Erie County) logs that median household income runs about $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

DISCOVERY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 29.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 19%, going from 791 students in 2018 to 638 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 31% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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