WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL

Set in BUFFALO, New York, WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL is a mid-tier primary school, one of the schools within WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL. It teaches 498 students across grades K through 8.

WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 25% Black, 18% Asian, 15% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 6% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of +5.8 points.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

NATIVE AMERICAN MAGNET is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 20.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has climbed 25% since 2018, when it stood at 399 (now 498). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 23% to 37% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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