REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

Located at 115 ASH ST, in BUFFALO, New York, REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a heavily attended elementary campus that enrolls 805 students (grades K through 8), part of REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. Enrollment runs roughly 82% larger than the state mean of about 443.

Operationally, REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL answers to REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 77%; the rest comes out to 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Erie County's rate of about 51%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Erie County) reports that 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), REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

ENTERPRISE CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.7%.

The school occupies an urban site. REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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