# IS 254

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008703794`
- **School name**: IS 254
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10458
- **Address**: 2452 WASHINGTON AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 (LEAID `3600087`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.85880, -73.89000
- **Phone**: (718)220-8700
- **Wikidata QID**: Q102339809

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 406
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 1
  - 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 26.5% (125 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.9% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 8.3% (39 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 36.1% (171 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**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 83.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 12.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.8%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.6% — 126 students
- **English Learners**: 33.8% — 160 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 54 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 43 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $33,828
- **Federal share**: $5,371
- **State + local share**: $28,457
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 473
### 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**: $41,088
- **Poverty rate**: 41.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.7%
- **Unemployment**: 12.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,659
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.4 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 49
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.70 miles (748 752 EAST 182ND STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KINGSTON CENTER AN0
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 11
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-29

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.43167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BELMONT PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 3.29% (this school: 4.86%)
- **FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS** — 0.1 mi away, 1.43% (this school: 4.86%)
- **FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 1.56% (this school: 4.86%)
- **WEST BRONX ACADEMY FOR THE FUTURE** — 0.1 mi away, 4.06% (this school: 4.86%)
- **JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.86%)

### ela proficiency
- **JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 51% (this school: 28%)
- **PS 3 RAUL JULIA MICRO SOCIETY** — 0.6 mi away, 41% (this school: 28%)
- **KIPP FREEDOM CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 51% (this school: 28%)
- **JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES** — 0.7 mi away, 48% (this school: 28%)
- **SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP** — 0.7 mi away, 42% (this school: 28%)

### math proficiency
- **JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 49% (this school: 38.67%)
- **PS 205 FIORELLO LAGUARDIA** — 0.5 mi away, 39% (this school: 38.67%)
- **PS 3 RAUL JULIA MICRO SOCIETY** — 0.6 mi away, 60% (this school: 38.67%)
- **KIPP FREEDOM CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 76.2% (this school: 38.67%)
- **JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES** — 0.7 mi away, 43% (this school: 38.67%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-254-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-254-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-254-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-254-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-254-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-254-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-254-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-254-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-254-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-254-bronx/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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