# BILINGUAL CENTER

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585000333`
- **School name**: BILINGUAL CENTER
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14210
- **Address**: 157 ELK ST
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.86850, -78.84880
- **Phone**: (716)816-4783

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 358
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Comprehensive Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 1
  - EM Growth: 2
  - overall_status: Comprehensive Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 87.7% (341 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.6% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 31.2% (103 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 32.4% (107 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 84.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 6.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 30.6% — 101 students
- **English Learners**: 74.5% — 246 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 32 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $33,419
- **Federal share**: $6,425
- **State + local share**: $26,994
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 330
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $44,167,472
- **Federal share**: 26.5%
- **State share**: 62.7%
- **Local share**: 10.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,258,378

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $32,500
- **Poverty rate**: 37.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $952
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 39.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.4 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 20
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 99
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.19 miles (49 LEDDY SMITH LEDDY)

### 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**: 6.25738 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BUFFALO CREEK ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.64%)
- **BUFFALO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY** — 1.0 mi away, 0.96% (this school: 3.64%)
- **BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0.67% (this school: 3.64%)
- **HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.64%)
- **SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 1.73% (this school: 3.64%)

### ela proficiency
- **BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 18% (this school: 10%)
- **HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 13% (this school: 10%)
- **ENTERPRISE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 13% (this school: 10%)
- **REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 17% (this school: 10%)
- **PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY** — 1.8 mi away, 27% (this school: 10%)

### math proficiency
- **BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 29% (this school: 11.75%)
- **REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 28.67% (this school: 11.75%)
- **PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY** — 1.8 mi away, 29.75% (this school: 11.75%)
- **PS 27 HILLERY PARK ACADEMY** — 2.0 mi away, 30.25% (this school: 11.75%)
- **WATERFRONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 28.2% (this school: 11.75%)

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