# MS 297

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007706602`
- **School name**: MS 297
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10038
- **Address**: 75 MORTON ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (LEAID `3600077`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.73124, -74.00746
- **Phone**: (212)295-7555

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 297
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 2
  - 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 22.1% (180 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.4% (40 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.5%
- **Black/African American**: 8.7%
- **Asian**: 11.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 45.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 4.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 63.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.4% — 40 students
- **English Learners**: 1.9% — 6 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,414
- **Federal share**: $3,810
- **State + local share**: $28,605
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 323
### 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**: $239,038
- **Poverty rate**: 4.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 86.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.6 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 162
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.56 miles (THE HIGH LINE)

### 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**: 1.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 3 CHARRETTE SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.42%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL 560 CITY-AS-SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 10.96% (this school: 12.42%)
- **PS 721 MANHATTAN OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING CENTER** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.42%)
- **CHELSEA CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 9.23% (this school: 12.42%)
- **NYC ISCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.42%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 3 CHARRETTE SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 72% (this school: 49%)
- **PS 41 GREENWICH VILLAGE** — 0.5 mi away, 84% (this school: 49%)
- **SIXTH AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 76% (this school: 49%)
- **PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO** — 1.0 mi away, 69% (this school: 49%)
- **IS 289** — 1.0 mi away, 78% (this school: 49%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 3 CHARRETTE SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 73% (this school: 46.4%)
- **PS 41 GREENWICH VILLAGE** — 0.5 mi away, 90% (this school: 46.4%)
- **SIXTH AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 75% (this school: 46.4%)
- **PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 46.4%)
- **IS 289** — 1.0 mi away, 83.2% (this school: 46.4%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-297-new-york
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-297-new-york/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-297-new-york/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-297-new-york/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-297-new-york/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-297-new-york/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-297-new-york/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-297-new-york/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-297-new-york/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-297-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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