WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a large primary school in BUFFALO, New York, WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 771 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 74% larger than that benchmark.

BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 61 schools with combined enrollment of 29,425 students; WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 20% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 11% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 23.0%, a residual of -17.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Erie County shows 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%. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ELMWOOD VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL HERTEL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 35.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 785 (now 771).

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