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Batavia, New York - 1 schools
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District-Level NCES Analysis
New York State School for the Blind operates 1 public schools serving 54 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New York. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Genesee County.
and 64.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.9% White, 23.5% African American, 11.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
New York State School for the Blind accounts for 94.4% of all New York State School for the Blind student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of New York State School for the Blind a distant remainder — means New York State School for the Blind-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
New York State School for the Blind has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 93.1% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
New York State School for the Blind chronic absenteeism rate is 64.7% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to New York State School for the Blind's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in New York State School for the Blind?
New York State School for the Blind has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 54 students.
What is the demographic composition of New York State School for the Blind?
New York State School for the Blind students are 56.9% White, 23.5% African American, 11.8% Hispanic or Latino, 3.9% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.