# PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012002572`
- **School name**: PS 159 ISAAC PITKIN
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11208
- **Address**: 2781 PITKIN AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 (LEAID `3600120`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.67600, -73.86970
- **Phone**: (718)277-4828

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 661
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Weight 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 32.5% (225 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 8.5% (52 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 44.2% (270 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**: 2.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 25.1%
- **Black/African American**: 48.4%
- **Asian**: 22.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.8% — 115 students
- **English Learners**: 25.9% — 158 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 41 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 38 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,398
- **Federal share**: $4,684
- **State + local share**: $24,714
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 613
### 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**: $47,656
- **Poverty rate**: 19.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.5%
- **Unemployment**: 7.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,485
- **Foreign-born residents**: 52.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.0 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 74
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.50 miles (242 CHESTNUT STREET)

### 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**: 8.36016 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CYPRESS HILLS ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.29%)
- **EAST NEW YORK MIDDLE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.29%)
- **EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS)** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.29%)
- **VISTA ACADEMY** — 0.8 mi away, 2.2% (this school: 2.29%)
- **PS 64 JOSEPH P ADDABBO** — 0.8 mi away, 0.64% (this school: 2.29%)

### ela proficiency
- **BROOKLYN SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 45% (this school: 41%)
- **PS 938** — 0.5 mi away, 58% (this school: 41%)
- **MS 935** — 0.5 mi away, 46% (this school: 41%)
- **HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 45% (this school: 41%)
- **VISTA ACADEMY** — 0.8 mi away, 42% (this school: 41%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 938** — 0.5 mi away, 68% (this school: 49%)
- **VISTA ACADEMY** — 0.8 mi away, 55.75% (this school: 49%)
- **PS 64 JOSEPH P ADDABBO** — 0.8 mi away, 53% (this school: 49%)
- **PS 108 SAL ABBRACCIAMENTO** — 0.8 mi away, 71% (this school: 49%)
- **PS 65** — 0.9 mi away, 69% (this school: 49%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-isaac-pitkin-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-isaac-pitkin-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-isaac-pitkin-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-isaac-pitkin-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-isaac-pitkin-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-isaac-pitkin-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-isaac-pitkin-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-isaac-pitkin-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-isaac-pitkin-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-isaac-pitkin-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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