# CATARACT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362082005954`
- **School name**: CATARACT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: NIAGARA FALLS, NY 14304
- **Address**: 6431 GIRARD AVE
- **District**: NIAGARA FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3620820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 43.08520, -78.98940
- **Phone**: (716)278-9120

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 496
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 38.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 60.6% (302 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 33.0% (176 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 9.8%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 30.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 40.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 17.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 72.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.4% — 93 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 40 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,712
- **Federal share**: $2,918
- **State + local share**: $22,794
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 532
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,177,121
- **Federal share**: 20.9%
- **State share**: 65.5%
- **Local share**: 13.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,287,875

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $54,188
- **Poverty rate**: 21.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.8%
- **Unemployment**: 11.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $968
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.0 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 49
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.57 miles (JUNIORS TRUCK STOP)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: NIAGARA FALLS WATER BOARD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.87049 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.31%)
- **GERALDINE J MANN SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.31%)
- **HUTH ROAD SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.31%)
- **CHARLOTTE SIDWAY SCHOOL** — 4.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.31%)
- **MAPLE AVENUE SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 1.04% (this school: 1.31%)

### ela proficiency
- **SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 34% (this school: 11%)
- **LASALLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 43% (this school: 11%)
- **GERALDINE J MANN SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 34% (this school: 11%)
- **GASKILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 22% (this school: 11%)
- **HYDE PARK SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 21% (this school: 11%)

### math proficiency
- **SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 42.5% (this school: 12.5%)
- **LASALLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 49% (this school: 12.5%)
- **GERALDINE J MANN SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 49.5% (this school: 12.5%)
- **GASKILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 20% (this school: 12.5%)
- **HYDE PARK SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 19% (this school: 12.5%)

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