# AMHERST MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-middle-school-amherst

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360292004335`
- **School name**: AMHERST MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: AMHERST, NY 14226
- **Address**: 55 KINGS HWY
- **District**: AMHERST CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3602920`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.95570, -78.79068
- **Phone**: (716)362-7100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 646
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 72
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 3
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.7% (48 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.5% (42 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 22
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.7%
- **Black/African American**: 8.6%
- **Asian**: 15.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 65.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 31.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.0% — 84 students
- **English Learners**: 4.8% — 31 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 38 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,451
- **Federal share**: $1,031
- **State + local share**: $24,420
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 645
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,021,993
- **Federal share**: 24.1%
- **State share**: 26.9%
- **Local share**: 49.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,059,980

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $130,396
- **Poverty rate**: 6.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 67.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $913
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.7 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 51
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.75 miles (1 LIBERTY)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.38319 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **SMALLWOOD DRIVE SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 72% (this school: 66%)
- **MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 69% (this school: 66%)
- **MAPLE EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED** — 4.2 mi away, 71% (this school: 66%)
- **COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 74% (this school: 66%)

### math proficiency
- **MAPLE EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 89% (this school: 80.2%)
- **HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.1 mi away, 84.6% (this school: 80.2%)
- **COUNTRY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 87% (this school: 80.2%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 5.1 mi away, 84.8% (this school: 80.2%)
- **CASEY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 88% (this school: 80.2%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-middle-school-amherst
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-middle-school-amherst/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-middle-school-amherst/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-middle-school-amherst/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-middle-school-amherst/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-middle-school-amherst/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-middle-school-amherst/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-middle-school-amherst/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-middle-school-amherst/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-middle-school-amherst/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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