# GIFFEN MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360246000016`
- **School name**: GIFFEN MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: ALBANY, NY 12202
- **Address**: 274 S PEARL ST
- **District**: ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3602460`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 42.64130, -73.75590
- **Phone**: (518)475-6650

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 387
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 65.3% (322 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.4% (26 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 35.7% (145 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 23.5%
- **Black/African American**: 9.4%
- **Asian**: 53.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.7% — 76 students
- **English Learners**: 20.2% — 82 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $37,623
- **Federal share**: $5,184
- **State + local share**: $32,439
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 406
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $40,979,376
- **Federal share**: 19.3%
- **State share**: 40.9%
- **Local share**: 39.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,344,171

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $36,150
- **Poverty rate**: 31.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.3%
- **Unemployment**: 6.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $887
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 35.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.4 miles (DEWEY LOEFFEL LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 33
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.48 miles (YACHT CLUB)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ALBANY CITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-12-19

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.46316 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **KIPP ALBANY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 1.33% (this school: 6.4%)
- **GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.4%)
- **THOMAS S O'BRIEN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY** — 0.8 mi away, 2.28% (this school: 6.4%)
- **WILLIAM S HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 2.38% (this school: 6.4%)
- **ALBANY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 45% (this school: 13%)
- **WILLIAM S HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 39% (this school: 13%)
- **DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 20% (this school: 13%)
- **ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 18% (this school: 13%)
- **ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES** — 1.7 mi away, 64% (this school: 13%)

### math proficiency
- **GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 20.67% (this school: 15%)
- **WILLIAM S HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 56.67% (this school: 15%)
- **DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 27% (this school: 15%)
- **ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 31% (this school: 15%)
- **ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES** — 1.7 mi away, 74% (this school: 15%)

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