# WILLOW RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362850003833`
- **School name**: WILLOW RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: AMHERST, NY 14228
- **Address**: 480 WILLOW RIDGE DR
- **District**: SWEET HOME CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3628500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 43.01340, -78.80770
- **Phone**: (716)250-1575

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 427
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 31.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 3
  - 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 17.7% (65 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.7% (50 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 3.8%
- **Black/African American**: 11.5%
- **Asian**: 17.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 59.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 33.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.3% — 21 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,903
- **Federal share**: $2,124
- **State + local share**: $23,779
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 397
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $27,602,484
- **Federal share**: 9.1%
- **State share**: 31.4%
- **Local share**: 59.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,095,238

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $68,988
- **Poverty rate**: 16.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.7%
- **Unemployment**: 2.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,194
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.9 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 34
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.24 miles (TRIANGLE AREA)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.87049 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **GLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 40% (this school: 34%)
- **SWEET HOME MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 40% (this school: 34%)
- **HEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 60% (this school: 34%)
- **MAPLEMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 55% (this school: 34%)
- **HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 61% (this school: 34%)

### math proficiency
- **GLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 42% (this school: 41%)
- **SWEET HOME MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 60.2% (this school: 41%)
- **KENMORE EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 62.67% (this school: 41%)
- **HEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 41%)
- **MAPLEMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 63% (this school: 41%)

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