The Buffalo Public School District is celebrating a rise in graduation rates, scores and overall performance. 

The “Every Student Succeeds Act” results found that Buffalo Public Schools graduation rate climbed to 64 percent for 14 schools. 

Since 2015, receivership or failing schools have declined from 25 to just two schools. 

Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash said the district is now a “handful of schools away from being an entire school district in good standing.” 

"We have lower class sizes than ever before," Cash said. "We're focused deeply in the tissue of instruction like never before. We have 20 strong community schools in every segment of the city, flourishing in some of the toughest zip codes in the city. We're gonna reclaim our communities. We're gonna make the schools the epicenter again of all our communities." 

When asked about a violent confrontation involving a teacher and student at McKinley High School, the superintendent had no comment.

Cash also refrained from commenting on the recent memo from the Buffalo Teacher Federation outlining concerns of safety by teachers at the high school.