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What's the state of after-school transportation at TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL?
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Enrollment
1,120
Combined
STATE 544
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360003804346
TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL
65 GREAT ARROW AVE, BUFFALO, NY 14216 · (716) 204-5883 · Erie County
GRADES KG–12COMBINED11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,120 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of New York public K-12 schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
88 FTE teachers
STATE 8.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
727 students
STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 74 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 90 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 89 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 89 | 8% |
| Grade 9 | 88 | 8% |
| Grade 10 | 86 | 8% |
| Grade 11 | 83 | 7% |
| Grade 12 | 79 | 7% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 17% smaller than its 8th grade class (89).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
48.1%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.2pp since 2023
Math
38.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.1% | 38.3% |
| 2023-24 | 40.9% | 36.5% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,120
+40 (+4%) vs 2020
+104% since 2010-11, when it was 548
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,120 | 87.5 | 12.8:1 | 65% (727) |
| 2023-24 | 1,126 | 93.8 | 12.0:1 | 68% (768) |
| 2022-23 | 1,108 | 89.9 | 12.3:1 | 70% (771) |
| 2020-21 | 1,080 | 83 | 13.0:1 | 72% (773) |
| 2017-18 | 893 | 83.8 | 10.7:1 | 68% (610) |
| 2015-16 | 826 | 78 | 10.6:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 548 | 48 | 11.4:1 | 43% (235) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL.
About TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL
TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL is a large school serving multiple grade levels in New York, located in BUFFALO. It reported 1,120 students in kindergarten through 12 in 2024-25. By comparison, combined schools in New York enroll about 544 students on average.
TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.
The student body at TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL is 54% Black. The school is also 19% White, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 13%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 64%.
The school has 87.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.8 students per teacher. Statewide, combined schools in New York average 8.7:1. Of all students at TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL, 65% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Erie County average 51%.
On the allk12 Grade, TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL lands at D, ahead of 10% of New York public K-12 schools.
On BeatsExpectations, TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL is 12.3 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
In Erie County, home to about 950,622 people, the median household earns about $72,839 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL shares Erie County with 225 other public schools.
The closest school to TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL is PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, located about 0.1 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL. Its average proficiency rate of 38.8% is above the 38.6% average for nearby schools.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Federal records list TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL as a charter school.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL had a net gain of 40 students, or 4%.
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Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BUFFALO
- CHARTER SCHOOL FOR APPLIED TECHNOLOGIESCombined · 2,260 students
- KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,235 students
- HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,140 students
- CITY HONORS SCHOOLHigh · 1,088 students
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
- FREDERICK OLMSTED #156High · 928 students
Nearby schools
- PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED0.1 mi · 583
- MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 862
- PS 810.7 mi · 739
- ELMWOOD VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL HERTEL0.7 mi · 416
- WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 771
- PFC WILLIAM J GRABIARZ #791.1 mi · 518
Frequently asked questions
About TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL?
TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,120 students in grades KG-12.
Is TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL is a combined-grade school covering grades KG-12.
How many teachers does TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL employs 88 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL?
At TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 19% White, 15% Hispanic, 54% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL public or private?
TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.