# MS 131

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007704402`
- **School name**: MS 131
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10002
- **Address**: 100 HESTER ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (LEAID `3600077`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.71640, -73.99340
- **Phone**: (212)219-1204

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 257
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - 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 28.5% (72 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.8% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.1% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.1% (47 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**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 21.4%
- **Black/African American**: 61.1%
- **Asian**: 14.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 39.5% — 115 students
- **English Learners**: 48.8% — 142 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 38 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $43,602
- **Federal share**: $4,694
- **State + local share**: $38,909
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 292
### 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)
- **Poverty rate**: 10.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.9%
- **Unemployment**: 11.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,340
- **Foreign-born residents**: 53.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.4 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 162
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.28 miles (VERNAM BARBADOES BASINS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUBURBANS COMMUNITY MHP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.65041 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **EMMA LAZARUS HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 1.98% (this school: 3.78%)
- **PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN** — 0.1 mi away, 0.44% (this school: 3.78%)
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.78%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR DUAL LANGUAGE AND ASIAN STUDIES** — 0.2 mi away, 2.17% (this school: 3.78%)
- **ESSEX STREET ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 1.97% (this school: 3.78%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN** — 0.1 mi away, 64% (this school: 45%)
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 0.2 mi away, 89% (this school: 45%)
- **PS 2 MEYER LONDON** — 0.3 mi away, 63% (this school: 45%)
- **PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO** — 0.3 mi away, 69% (this school: 45%)
- **PS 126 JACOB AUGUST RIIS** — 0.5 mi away, 73% (this school: 45%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN** — 0.1 mi away, 79% (this school: 63.6%)
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 0.2 mi away, 94% (this school: 63.6%)
- **PS 2 MEYER LONDON** — 0.3 mi away, 70% (this school: 63.6%)
- **PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO** — 0.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 63.6%)
- **PS 126 JACOB AUGUST RIIS** — 0.5 mi away, 85% (this school: 63.6%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-131-new-york
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-131-new-york/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-131-new-york/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-131-new-york/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-131-new-york/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-131-new-york/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-131-new-york/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-131-new-york/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-131-new-york/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-131-new-york/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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