# GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361239001005`
- **School name**: GOWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: GOWANDA, NY 14070
- **Address**: 450 ALDRICH ST
- **District**: GOWANDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3612390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.47430, -78.94260
- **Phone**: (716)532-3325

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 421
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - 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 46.5% (181 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 20.9% (94 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 24.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 3.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 61.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 10.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 62.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.0% — 72 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 32 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,446
- **Federal share**: $2,455
- **State + local share**: $24,991
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 450
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $38,884,542
- **Federal share**: 17.5%
- **State share**: 67.4%
- **Local share**: 15.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $18,291,985

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $46,960
- **Poverty rate**: 11.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.4%
- **Unemployment**: 9.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $719
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.7 miles (LITTLE VALLEY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.70 miles (FORMER MEMORIAL DRIVE HOSPITAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GOWANDA VILLAGE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 12
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.5431 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 19.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **GOWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.33%)
- **NORTH COLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.33%)
- **NORTH COLLINS JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.33%)
- **CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 10.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.33%)
- **CATTARAUGUS-LITTLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL** — 10.6 mi away, 1.19% (this school: 1.33%)

### ela proficiency
- **NORTH COLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.5 mi away, 45% (this school: 41%)
- **FORESTVILLE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 12.0 mi away, 53% (this school: 41%)
- **FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 12.1 mi away, 50% (this school: 41%)
- **EDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 13.2 mi away, 50% (this school: 41%)
- **EDEN MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL** — 13.4 mi away, 53% (this school: 41%)

### math proficiency
- **GOWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 54% (this school: 48%)
- **NORTH COLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.5 mi away, 62.5% (this school: 48%)
- **SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 11.9 mi away, 49% (this school: 48%)
- **FORESTVILLE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 12.0 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 48%)
- **FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 12.1 mi away, 74% (this school: 48%)

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