PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY

PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY, an average-sized primary school in BUFFALO, New York, overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 396 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Across the 61 schools in BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (29,425 students total), PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY reports that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 17% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% White. 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, PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY reports 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Erie County's rate of about 51%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.5%; PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY posts 18.7%, -20.8 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, 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 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is COMMUNITY SCHOOL #53, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 30.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. PS 74 HAMLIN PARK - CLAUDE AND OUIDA CLAPP ACADEMY's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 451 (now 396). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 84% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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