# IS 237

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012201996`
- **School name**: IS 237
- **Location**: FLUSHING, NY 11355
- **Address**: 46-21 COLDEN ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 (LEAID `3600122`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.74960, -73.82160
- **Phone**: (718)353-6464
- **Wikidata QID**: Q105019015

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,313
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 86
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 83.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 3
  - 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 11.6% (153 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (24 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.8% (164 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0
- **Restraint incidents**: 0
- **Seclusion incidents**: 0
- **Referrals to law enforcement**: 0
- **Bullying allegations**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.6%
- **Black/African American**: 78.6%
- **Asian**: 3.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.9% — 178 students
- **English Learners**: 23.2% — 296 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 98 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 40 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,913
- **Federal share**: $3,629
- **State + local share**: $22,284
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,279
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $29,589
- **Poverty rate**: 25.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.7%
- **Unemployment**: 12.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,345
- **Foreign-born residents**: 73.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.1 miles (STANTON CLEANERS AREA GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 37
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.79 miles (135 15 40TH ROAD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SOUTH ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.82155 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **EAST-WEST SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.86%)
- **PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON** — 0.3 mi away, 0.59% (this school: 0.86%)
- **ACTIVE LEARNING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.86%)
- **QUEENS COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (THE)** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.86%)
- **PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS** — 0.9 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 0.86%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON** — 0.3 mi away, 62% (this school: 59%)
- **PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS** — 0.9 mi away, 62% (this school: 59%)
- **PS 165 EDITH K BERGTRAUM** — 1.4 mi away, 60% (this school: 59%)
- **PS/MS 200 MAGNET SCHOOL-GLOBAL STUDI** — 1.5 mi away, 61% (this school: 59%)
- **JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN** — 1.6 mi away, 76% (this school: 59%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON** — 0.3 mi away, 83% (this school: 78.6%)
- **PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS** — 0.9 mi away, 81% (this school: 78.6%)
- **JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN** — 1.6 mi away, 89.5% (this school: 78.6%)
- **PS 173 FRESH MEADOWS** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 78.6%)
- **PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY** — 2.0 mi away, 97% (this school: 78.6%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-237-flushing
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-237-flushing/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-237-flushing/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-237-flushing/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-237-flushing/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-237-flushing/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-237-flushing/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-237-flushing/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-237-flushing/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-237-flushing/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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