# BIRCH SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-school-merrick/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/birch-school-merrick

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361911001727`
- **School name**: BIRCH SCHOOL
- **Location**: MERRICK, NY 11566
- **Address**: 2400 CENTRAL PKWY
- **District**: MERRICK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3619110`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.65670, -73.56030
- **Phone**: (516)992-7250

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 588
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 55
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 6.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 4
  - 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 5.3% (28 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 5.9% (35 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**: 11.1%
- **Black/African American**: 3.8%
- **Asian**: 2.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 81.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 7.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.5% — 98 students
- **English Learners**: 1.2% — 7 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $35,832,471
- **Federal share**: 2.3%
- **State share**: 19.1%
- **Local share**: 78.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $23,631,953

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $135,417
- **Poverty rate**: 3.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 53.6%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.1 miles (OLD ROOSEVELT FIELD CONTAMINATED GW AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.89 miles (MILL RD HEMPSTEAD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LIBERTY UTILITIES NEW YORK - LYNBROOK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 15
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.6 miles

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