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Oracle Charter School is situated in a turn of the century brick mansion along Buffalo’s Millionaire’s Row. The mansion, which comprises the front portion of the school, was built for Charles W. Goodyear in 1903. After Ms. Goodyear’s death in 1940, the mansion was acquired by Buffalo’s Catholic Diocese and was converted into a school with the addition of a wing of large classrooms and a gymnasium.

This location provided a unique site for a new charter school, and the Goodyear mansion is now home to Oracle Charter School. The mansion provides Oracle Charter School students and staff with an unspoken sense of the value and power of education. At the same time, the mansion lends our new school a sense of history unique to our school culture.

Mr. Goodyear, who made a fortune in lumber and railroads in the years before the establishment of income tax, once wrote in a letter to his wife: “A better division of the comforts and luxuries of life will be made. This is sure to come about though none of us will live to see it.” Oracle Charter School participates in the mission to strive for social justice underlying Mr. Goodyear’s insight, and we hope that he would be proud of the students who are currently educated in his home.