# LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585000363`
- **School name**: LORRAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14220
- **Address**: 71 LORRAINE AVE
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.84694, -78.81454
- **Phone**: (716)816-4809

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 638
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 61
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 2
  - 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 70.1% (513 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.3% (22 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 24.5% (164 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.3%
- **Black/African American**: 4.0%
- **Asian**: 29.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 43.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 7.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 33.2% — 222 students
- **English Learners**: 2.5% — 17 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 63 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 50 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 39 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 20 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,947
- **Federal share**: $3,497
- **State + local share**: $24,450
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 669
### 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**: $75,625
- **Poverty rate**: 15.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.4%
- **Unemployment**: 10.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,082
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.5 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 91
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.20 miles (GERMANIA STREET RIGHT OF WAY SOUTH BUFFALO)

### 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
- **DISCOVERY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.75%)
- **GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.75%)
- **WINCHESTER-POTTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.75%)
- **PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.75%)
- **LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 0.68% (this school: 0.75%)

### ela proficiency
- **GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 35%)
- **WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 37% (this school: 35%)
- **BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.6 mi away, 39% (this school: 35%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 76% (this school: 35%)
- **WINDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 35%)

### math proficiency
- **DISCOVERY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 55.8% (this school: 36%)
- **SOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 59% (this school: 36%)
- **WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 54% (this school: 36%)
- **BLASDELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.6 mi away, 53% (this school: 36%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 84.8% (this school: 36%)

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