# WATERFRONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585000381`
- **School name**: WATERFRONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14202
- **Address**: 95 FOURTH ST
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.88690, -78.88420
- **Phone**: (716)816-3900

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 743
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 61
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Comprehensive Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 1
  - EM Weight 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 68.8% (545 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.6% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 35.4% (273 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**: 18.1%
- **Black/African American**: 24.5%
- **Asian**: 43.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 2.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.1% — 155 students
- **English Learners**: 39.7% — 306 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 50 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 35 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 34 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 18 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,773
- **Federal share**: $3,849
- **State + local share**: $21,924
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 771
### 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)
- **Poverty rate**: 52.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.5%
- **Unemployment**: 20.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $979
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 37.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.4 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 92
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.18 miles (WATERFRONT SCHOOL NATIONAL FUEL GAS)

### 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**: 3.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BUFFALO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.3%)
- **HUTCHINSON CENTRAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 1.3%)
- **PS 42 OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING CENTER** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.3%)
- **BUFFALO SCHOOL OF CULINARY ARTS AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.3%)
- **EMERSON SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 76% (this school: 29%)
- **WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 45% (this school: 29%)
- **PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED** — 3.8 mi away, 71% (this school: 29%)
- **TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 39% (this school: 29%)
- **SOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 4.4 mi away, 35% (this school: 29%)

### math proficiency
- **REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 28.67% (this school: 28.2%)
- **BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 29% (this school: 28.2%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 84.8% (this school: 28.2%)
- **WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 49% (this school: 28.2%)
- **PS 69 HOUGHTON ACADEMY** — 3.8 mi away, 29.75% (this school: 28.2%)

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