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Buffalo is an American city in western New York. The city had a total population of two hundred ninety-two thousand, six hundred forty-eight according to the two thousand census report. It is the state's second-largest city, after New York City. A diverse metropolitan area with a population of one million people, Buffalo is the economic and cultural center of the Buffalo-Niagara Region. The Buffalo area is adjacent to the Golden Horseshoe, an urban region in southern Ontario. Buffalo lies at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the southern head of the Niagara River, which connects Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Buffalo is located on the eastern end of Lake Erie, opposite Fort Erie, Ontario in Canada, and at the beginning of the Niagara River, which flows northward over Niagara Falls and into Lake Ontario. According to the United States Census Bureau, Buffalo has a total area of fifty-two square miles. Buffalo has a reputation for snowy winters. The region experiences a fairly humid, continental-type climate, but with a definite maritime flavor due to strong modification from the Great Lakes. The transitional seasons are very brief in Buffalo and Western New York. Currently, there are seventy-eight public schools in the city including a growing number of charter schools. Total enrollment was forty-one thousand, eighty-nine students with a student-teacher ratio of thirteen to one. The dropout rate is just five percent and eighty-three percent of students who graduate go on to college. More than twenty-seven percent of teachers have a Master's degree or higher and the median amount of experience in the field is fifteen years. When considering the entire metropolitan area, there are two hundred ninety-two schools educating one hundred seventy-two thousand, eight hundred fifty-four students. Buffalo is noted for its model magnet school system attracting students with special interests, which include science, bilingual studies, and Native American studies. Specialized facilities include the Buffalo Elementary School of Technology; the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Multicultural Institute; the International School; the Dr. Charles R. Drew Science Magnet School; Build Academy; Leonardo da Vinci High School; the Buffalo Academy for the Visual and Performing ArtsBAVPA; the Riverside Institute of Technology; Lafayette High School/Buffalo Academy of Finance; Hutchinson Central Technical High School; and the Emerson School of Hospitality. The City Honors School was recently ranked number four in the nation by Newsweek magazine. Buffalo is currently in the process of a $1 billion city school rebuilding plan.
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