# HIGHGATE HEIGHTS

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/highgate-heights-buffalo/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/highgate-heights-buffalo

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585000368`
- **School name**: HIGHGATE HEIGHTS
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14215
- **Address**: 600 HIGHGATE AVE
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.94850, -78.80600
- **Phone**: (716)816-4050

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 407
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.9%

## 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: 1
  - 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 79.7% (311 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.0% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 13.3% (51 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**: 4.9%
- **Black/African American**: 9.8%
- **Asian**: 78.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.9% — 65 students
- **English Learners**: 2.1% — 8 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,283
- **Federal share**: $4,920
- **State + local share**: $23,364
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 384
### 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**: $46,908
- **Poverty rate**: 31.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.2%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,140
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.4 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 69
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.94 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**: 6.38319 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **AMHERST MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 14%)
- **CHARTER SCHOOL OF INQUIRY** — 1.0 mi away, 15% (this school: 14%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 1.2 mi away, 59% (this school: 14%)
- **BUFFALO UNITED CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 26% (this school: 14%)
- **WINDERMERE BLVD SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 42% (this school: 14%)

### math proficiency
- **AMHERST MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 80.2% (this school: 17%)
- **CHARTER SCHOOL OF INQUIRY** — 1.0 mi away, 25.5% (this school: 17%)
- **FREDERICK OLMSTED #156** — 1.2 mi away, 65% (this school: 17%)
- **BUFFALO UNITED CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 25% (this school: 17%)
- **WINDERMERE BLVD SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 50% (this school: 17%)

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