PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY

PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY is a primary school of moderately sized scale in BUFFALO, New York, run under BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 481 students in grades pre-K through 8.

BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 61 schools with combined enrollment of 29,425 students; PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY is among them.

Demographically, PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY lists that 34% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 33% White, 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.7%; this one delivers 26.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Erie County) logs that median household income runs about $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 31.7%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 645 students in 2018 compared to 481 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 37% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.