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Dr Lydia T Wright Sch of Excellence, Buffalo, NY

CEP schoolDr Lydia T Wright Sch of Excellence is a public elementary school in Buffalo, part of Buffalo City School District. It enrolled 560 students in 2024-25, with 11.2 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "DR LYDIA T WRIGHT SCH OF EXCELLENCE".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
560
Teachers (FTE)
50.0
Students per teacher
11.2
Grades
PK to 8

This school's ratio is 0.7 higher than the district figure of 10.5. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school11.2
District10.5
New York11.4
United States15.3

School details

Address
106 Appenheimer St, Buffalo, NY 14214
Phone
(716)816-4110
District
Buffalo City School District
County
Erie County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
360585000302
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
537
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
53795.9% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

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.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Buffalo City School District

Elementary schools elsewhere in Buffalo

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

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.