WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL

WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, a cozy primary school in BUFFALO, New York, operated by WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, instructs 342 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 443.

WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL sits inside WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL shows that 65% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 37.9%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the broader community, Erie County reports that median household income runs about $72,839, 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 WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

FREDERICK OLMSTED #156 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 32.6%.

WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL operates from a high-density location. WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 38% since 2018, when it stood at 550 (now 342). Black enrollment moved from 89% to 65% across the same window.

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