# BIRCH LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-lane-elementary-school-massapequa-park

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361863001683`
- **School name**: BIRCH LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: MASSAPEQUA PARK, NY 11762
- **Address**: 41 BIRCH LN
- **District**: MASSAPEQUA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3618630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.66264, -73.45321
- **Phone**: (516)308-5101

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 696
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 63
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 6.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 2
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.3% (27 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 10.9% (73 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.5%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 0.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 84.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 5.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.6% — 51 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,753
- **Federal share**: $395
- **State + local share**: $32,358
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 669
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $33,110,146
- **Federal share**: 3.1%
- **State share**: 22.1%
- **Local share**: 74.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $20,764,930

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $162,679
- **Poverty rate**: 4.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 59.9%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.0 miles (PREFERRED PLATING CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.47 miles (MARINOR STREET)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 51% (this school: 42%)
- **FAIRFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 51% (this school: 42%)
- **BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 59% (this school: 42%)
- **LOCKHART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 61% (this school: 42%)
- **SEAFORD MANOR SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 64% (this school: 42%)

### math proficiency
- **UNQUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 70% (this school: 58%)
- **FAIRFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 59% (this school: 58%)
- **BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 85.2% (this school: 58%)
- **LOCKHART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 64% (this school: 58%)
- **EAST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 63% (this school: 58%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-lane-elementary-school-massapequa-park
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-lane-elementary-school-massapequa-park/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-lane-elementary-school-massapequa-park/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-lane-elementary-school-massapequa-park/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-lane-elementary-school-massapequa-park/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-lane-elementary-school-massapequa-park/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-lane-elementary-school-massapequa-park/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-lane-elementary-school-massapequa-park/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-lane-elementary-school-massapequa-park/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-lane-elementary-school-massapequa-park/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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