# PS 81

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585000369`
- **School name**: PS 81
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14216
- **Address**: 140 TACOMA AVE
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.95198, -78.86751
- **Phone**: (716)816-4060

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 739
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 56
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - 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 57.4% (441 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.6% (50 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 9.1% (69 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.0%
- **Black/African American**: 8.2%
- **Asian**: 44.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 19.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 8.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.2% — 115 students
- **English Learners**: 3.4% — 26 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 34 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 26 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,435
- **Federal share**: $2,770
- **State + local share**: $20,664
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 756
### 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**: $63,722
- **Poverty rate**: 17.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 45.0%
- **Unemployment**: 2.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $981
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.0 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 80
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.63 miles (BLACK ROCK YARD CSX)

### 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**: 5.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.06%)
- **PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.06%)
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.06%)
- **PFC WILLIAM J GRABIARZ #79** — 1.1 mi away, 0.55% (this school: 1.06%)
- **MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 0.74% (this school: 1.06%)

### ela proficiency
- **TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 39% (this school: 28%)
- **PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED** — 0.8 mi away, 71% (this school: 28%)
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 1.0 mi away, 57% (this school: 28%)
- **KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 28%)
- **HERBERT HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 34% (this school: 28%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED** — 0.8 mi away, 68% (this school: 37.25%)
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 1.0 mi away, 62% (this school: 37.25%)
- **KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 56.67% (this school: 37.25%)
- **HERBERT HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 42% (this school: 37.25%)
- **HERBERT HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 54% (this school: 37.25%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-81-buffalo
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-81-buffalo/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-81-buffalo/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-81-buffalo/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-81-buffalo/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-81-buffalo/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-81-buffalo/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-81-buffalo/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-81-buffalo/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-81-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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