# THOMAS A EDISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361623004396`
- **School name**: THOMAS A EDISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: TONAWANDA, NY 14150
- **Address**: 236 GRAYTON RD
- **District**: KENMORE-TONAWANDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3616230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–4
- **Coordinates**: 42.98670, -78.84480
- **Phone**: (716)874-8416

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 609
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 1
  - 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 9.3% (51 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.2% (43 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 6.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 2.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 83.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 38.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 2.3% — 14 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,813
- **Federal share**: $1,757
- **State + local share**: $21,056
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 601
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $31,656,469
- **Federal share**: 13.9%
- **State share**: 38.2%
- **Local share**: 47.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,976,900

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $89,327
- **Poverty rate**: 4.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 41.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,170
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.2 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 78
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.88 miles (REMINGTON RAND BUILDING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TONAWANDA, TOWN WATER DEPT.
- **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**: 3.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **KENMORE EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0.47% (this school: 0.5%)
- **CHARLES A LINDBERGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.5%)
- **GLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.5%)
- **WINDERMERE BLVD SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 0.26% (this school: 0.5%)
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 2.4 mi away, 57% (this school: 46%)
- **TONAWANDA MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 48% (this school: 46%)
- **MAPLEMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 55% (this school: 46%)
- **PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED** — 3.4 mi away, 71% (this school: 46%)
- **AMHERST MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 46%)

### math proficiency
- **KENMORE EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 62.67% (this school: 54%)
- **KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 56.67% (this school: 54%)
- **SWEET HOME MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 60.2% (this school: 54%)
- **NORTH PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL #50** — 2.4 mi away, 62% (this school: 54%)
- **TONAWANDA MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 68.2% (this school: 54%)

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