# BEN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361623001402`
- **School name**: BEN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14223
- **Address**: 500 PARKHURST BLVD
- **District**: KENMORE-TONAWANDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3616230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–4
- **Coordinates**: 42.97260, -78.83292
- **Phone**: (716)874-8415

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 460
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 50.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 4
  - 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 11.8% (59 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 23.3% (107 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.4%
- **Black/African American**: 5.6%
- **Asian**: 12.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 58.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 11.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.3% — 98 students
- **English Learners**: 11.7% — 54 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 36 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 30 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,967
- **Federal share**: $2,098
- **State + local share**: $23,868
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 461
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $31,656,469
- **Federal share**: 13.9%
- **State share**: 38.2%
- **Local share**: 47.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,976,900

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $96,875
- **Poverty rate**: 13.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.6%
- **Unemployment**: 2.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,085
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.3 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 72
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.97 miles (1 LIBERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ECWA DIRECT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.87049 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **WINDERMERE BLVD SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0.26% (this school: 0.65%)
- **CHARLES A LINDBERGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.65%)
- **THOMAS A EDISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 0.5% (this school: 0.65%)
- **KENMORE EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0.47% (this school: 0.65%)
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.65%)

### ela proficiency
- **BEN FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 35% (this school: 30%)
- **WINDERMERE BLVD SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 42% (this school: 30%)
- **THOMAS A EDISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 46% (this school: 30%)
- **KENMORE EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 33% (this school: 30%)
- **KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 30%)

### math proficiency
- **BEN FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 51% (this school: 43%)
- **WINDERMERE BLVD SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 50% (this school: 43%)
- **THOMAS A EDISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 54% (this school: 43%)
- **KENMORE EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 62.67% (this school: 43%)
- **KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 56.67% (this school: 43%)

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