WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL

As a close-knit secondary school in BUFFALO, New York, WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL serves 392 students from grades 5 through 12, part of WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 668.

Operationally, WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL answers to WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 16% White, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 15% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 69.5%; this one comes in at 14.6%, -55.0 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Erie County) logs that median household income runs about $72,839, 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), WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.3%.

The school occupies an urban site. As a public charter, WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WESTERN NEW YORK MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL has declined 12%, going from 443 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 28% to 16%.

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