NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50

NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50 operates as a mid-sized elementary school in BUFFALO, New York, overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 437 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 61 schools with combined enrollment of 29,425 students; NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50 is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50 shows that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Black, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50 records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 30% of students at NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.0%; this one delivers 55.2%.

Across the wider county, census data for Erie County shows median household earnings sit near $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50 is one.

ACADEMY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50 comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50 operates from a city-core location.

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