STANLEY MAKOWSKI EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

Set in BUFFALO, New York, STANLEY MAKOWSKI EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is a mid-tier primary school, one of the schools within BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 566 students across grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so STANLEY MAKOWSKI EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER sits 28% bigger than that benchmark.

BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 61 schools with combined enrollment of 29,425 students; STANLEY MAKOWSKI EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is among them.

Demographically, STANLEY MAKOWSKI EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER logs that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 17% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 7% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STANLEY MAKOWSKI EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.5%.

Across the wider county, census data for Erie County shows median household income runs about $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), STANLEY MAKOWSKI EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MARTIN LUTHER KING JR #48, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, STANLEY MAKOWSKI EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 29%: 798 students in 2018 compared to 566 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment rose from 10% to 17% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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