# HOWITT SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361098000878`
- **School name**: HOWITT SCHOOL
- **Location**: FARMINGDALE, NY 11735
- **Address**: 70 VAN COTT AVE
- **District**: FARMINGDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3610980`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.73150, -73.44040
- **Phone**: (516)434-5410

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,180
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 127
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 27.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 1
  - 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 8.4% (106 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.3% (262 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 30
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 28.4%
- **Black/African American**: 6.3%
- **Asian**: 5.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 56.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 34.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.1% — 213 students
- **English Learners**: 4.8% — 56 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 75 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 73 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 27 students
- **Autism**: 22 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $38,144
- **Federal share**: $789
- **State + local share**: $37,354
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,174
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $34,425,735
- **Federal share**: 4.3%
- **State share**: 26.8%
- **Local share**: 68.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $20,544,859

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $133,450
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 51.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,277
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.6 miles (LIBERTY INDUSTRIAL FINISHING)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 47
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.83 miles (T M BER ASSOCIATES INC)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SOUTH FARMINGDALE WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)
- **PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 0.46% (this school: 0.85%)
- **EASTPLAIN SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)
- **JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)
- **JOHN H WEST SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)

### ela proficiency
- **NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 47% (this school: 45%)
- **WOODWARD PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 53% (this school: 45%)
- **ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 63% (this school: 45%)
- **PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 47% (this school: 45%)
- **EASTPLAIN SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 53% (this school: 45%)

### math proficiency
- **ALBANY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 77% (this school: 68.2%)
- **PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 79.33% (this school: 68.2%)
- **CHARLES CAMPAGNE SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 77% (this school: 68.2%)
- **OLD BETHPAGE SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 85% (this school: 68.2%)
- **ISLAND TREES MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 77.6% (this school: 68.2%)

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