Prekindergarten · Special education · Grades PK

Buffalo Early Child. Sp. Ed Program, Buffalo, MN

Buffalo Early Child. Sp. Ed Program is a public prekindergarten school in Buffalo, part of Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools. It enrolled 150 students in 2024-25, with 16.7 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "BUFFALO EARLY CHILD. SP. ED PROGRAM".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 150
Teachers (FTE): 9.0
Students per teacher: 16.7
Grades: PK

This school's ratio is 1.0 lower than the district figure of 17.7. The Minnesota average across schools is 15.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.7

District17.7

Minnesota15.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 214 NE 1st Ave, Buffalo, MN 55313
Phone: (763)682-8721
District: Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools
County: Wright County
Level: Prekindergarten
Type: Special education
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Town: Fringe
NCES school ID: 270720002852

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 42
Reduced-price lunch: 15
Free or reduced-price lunch: 5738.0% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 42Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.