# PS 121 NELSON A ROCKEFELLER

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015202447`
- **School name**: PS 121 NELSON A ROCKEFELLER
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11204
- **Address**: 5301 20TH AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (LEAID `3600152`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.62290, -73.97880
- **Phone**: (718)377-8845

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 295
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - 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 24.0% (75 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.3% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.0% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 20.1% (60 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**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 40.0%
- **Black/African American**: 21.0%
- **Asian**: 5.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 32.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 30.1% — 90 students
- **English Learners**: 21.4% — 64 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $49,286
- **Federal share**: $7,391
- **State + local share**: $41,895
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 299
### 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**: $68,315
- **Poverty rate**: 25.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.5%
- **Unemployment**: 6.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,896
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.1 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 48
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.63 miles (PARKVILLE SUBSTATION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CORNER STONE COURT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.19846 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 192 MAGNET SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE INQUIRY (THE)** — 0.4 mi away, 3% (this school: 3.34%)
- **PS 48 MAPLETON** — 0.5 mi away, 1.41% (this school: 3.34%)
- **SEEALL ACADEMY (THE)** — 0.6 mi away, 0.57% (this school: 3.34%)
- **PS 231** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.34%)
- **PS 99 ISAAC ASIMOV** — 0.7 mi away, 2.77% (this school: 3.34%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 134** — 0.7 mi away, 69% (this school: 54%)
- **PS 205 CLARION** — 0.7 mi away, 61% (this school: 54%)
- **PS 247** — 0.9 mi away, 64% (this school: 54%)
- **JHS 227 EDWARD B SHALLOW** — 0.9 mi away, 56% (this school: 54%)
- **PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY** — 1.1 mi away, 58% (this school: 54%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 134** — 0.7 mi away, 88% (this school: 60.25%)
- **PS 205 CLARION** — 0.7 mi away, 75% (this school: 60.25%)
- **PS 247** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 60.25%)
- **JHS 227 EDWARD B SHALLOW** — 0.9 mi away, 69% (this school: 60.25%)
- **PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY** — 1.1 mi away, 71% (this school: 60.25%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-121-nelson-a-rockefeller-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-121-nelson-a-rockefeller-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-121-nelson-a-rockefeller-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-121-nelson-a-rockefeller-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-121-nelson-a-rockefeller-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-121-nelson-a-rockefeller-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-121-nelson-a-rockefeller-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-121-nelson-a-rockefeller-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-121-nelson-a-rockefeller-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-121-nelson-a-rockefeller-brooklyn/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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