PS 59 DR CHARLES DREW SCIENCE MAGNET

Located at 1 MLK PARK, in BUFFALO, New York, PS 59 DR CHARLES DREW SCIENCE MAGNET is a cozy junior high that works with 293 students (grades 3 through 8), overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so PS 59 DR CHARLES DREW SCIENCE MAGNET sits 45% below that benchmark.

Across the 61 schools in BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (29,425 students total), PS 59 DR CHARLES DREW SCIENCE MAGNET accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 59 DR CHARLES DREW SCIENCE MAGNET logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 18% Asian, 9% White, 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PS 59 DR CHARLES DREW SCIENCE MAGNET has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Erie County's rate of about 51%.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 59 DR CHARLES DREW SCIENCE MAGNET falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.2%; this one comes in at 16.6%, -22.6 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Erie County shows median household income runs about $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), PS 59 DR CHARLES DREW SCIENCE MAGNET is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 59 DR CHARLES DREW SCIENCE MAGNET ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 59 DR CHARLES DREW SCIENCE MAGNET's enrollment has declined 61% since 2018, when it stood at 761 (now 293). The Asian share of enrollment increased from 11% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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