MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197

As a small 9-12 campus in BUFFALO, New York, MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197 serves 438 students from grades 9 through 12, run under BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 34% below typical.

MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197 is one of 61 schools operated by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 29,425 students overall.

On demographics, MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197 reports that Black students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 22% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.1%, the actual is 34.5%, a residual of -5.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Erie County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, 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), MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197 is one campus in the mix.

DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197. On composite proficiency, MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197 comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 29.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MATH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT 197 has fell 37%, going from 695 students in 2018 to 438 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 77% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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