# PS 153 HOMECREST

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015202552`
- **School name**: PS 153 HOMECREST
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11229
- **Address**: 1970 HOMECREST AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (LEAID `3600152`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.60120, -73.96000
- **Phone**: (718)375-4484

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 509
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.0%

## 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: 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 49.9% (277 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 20.2% (108 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**: 5.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 35.9%
- **Black/African American**: 21.4%
- **Asian**: 1.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 33.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.5%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.9% — 96 students
- **English Learners**: 24.1% — 129 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 27 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,681
- **Federal share**: $4,189
- **State + local share**: $26,492
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 535
### 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**: $68,589
- **Poverty rate**: 22.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 45.6%
- **Unemployment**: 6.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,001
- **Foreign-born residents**: 48.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.7 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 31
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.84 miles (1814 CONEY ISLAND AVE)

### 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**: 4.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 206 JOSEPH F LAMB** — 0.7 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 2.06%)
- **PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD** — 0.8 mi away, 0.56% (this school: 2.06%)
- **PS 95 GRAVESEND (THE)** — 0.9 mi away, 2.02% (this school: 2.06%)
- **PS 216 ARTURO TOSCANINI** — 0.9 mi away, 1.52% (this school: 2.06%)
- **PS 177 MARLBORO (THE)** — 0.9 mi away, 1.9% (this school: 2.06%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 255 BARBARA REING SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 54% (this school: 34%)
- **JHS 234 ARTHUR W CUNNINGHAM** — 0.3 mi away, 57% (this school: 34%)
- **PS 215 MORRIS H WEISS** — 0.5 mi away, 47% (this school: 34%)
- **PS 206 JOSEPH F LAMB** — 0.7 mi away, 50% (this school: 34%)
- **PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD** — 0.8 mi away, 61% (this school: 34%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 255 BARBARA REING SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 63% (this school: 46%)
- **JHS 234 ARTHUR W CUNNINGHAM** — 0.3 mi away, 74% (this school: 46%)
- **PS 215 MORRIS H WEISS** — 0.5 mi away, 57% (this school: 46%)
- **PS 206 JOSEPH F LAMB** — 0.7 mi away, 56% (this school: 46%)
- **PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD** — 0.8 mi away, 78% (this school: 46%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-153-homecrest-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-153-homecrest-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-153-homecrest-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-153-homecrest-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-153-homecrest-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-153-homecrest-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-153-homecrest-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-153-homecrest-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-153-homecrest-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-153-homecrest-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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