# PS 165 ROBERT E SIMON

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007802591`
- **School name**: PS 165 ROBERT E SIMON
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10025
- **Address**: 234 W 109TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 (LEAID `3600078`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.80260, -73.96590
- **Phone**: (212)678-2873

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 448
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 56.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - 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 41.0% (163 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.4% (40 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 14.8% (63 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 66.3% (282 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**: 51.9%
- **Black/African American**: 6.7%
- **Asian**: 15.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 23.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.8%
- **Two or more races**: 1.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 27.5% — 117 students
- **English Learners**: 19.3% — 82 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 33 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,012
- **Federal share**: $5,304
- **State + local share**: $26,708
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 424
### 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**: $119,547
- **Poverty rate**: 15.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 71.8%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,861
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.2 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 136
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.10 miles (2139 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR BOULEVARD)

### 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**: 6.70496 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MOTT HALL II** — 0.0 mi away, 1.58% (this school: 9.41%)
- **JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON** — 0.2 mi away, 1.55% (this school: 9.41%)
- **PS 145 BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.2 mi away, 6.98% (this school: 9.41%)
- **WEST PREP ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 6.59% (this school: 9.41%)
- **STEM INSTITUTE OF MANHATTAN** — 0.5 mi away, 4.51% (this school: 9.41%)

### ela proficiency
- **JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON** — 0.2 mi away, 85% (this school: 52%)
- **YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 71% (this school: 52%)
- **PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH** — 0.6 mi away, 56% (this school: 52%)
- **KIPP BEYOND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 70% (this school: 52%)
- **PS 75 EMILY DICKINSON** — 0.7 mi away, 55% (this school: 52%)

### math proficiency
- **MOTT HALL II** — 0.0 mi away, 57% (this school: 50%)
- **JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON** — 0.2 mi away, 89.8% (this school: 50%)
- **YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 67.8% (this school: 50%)
- **PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH** — 0.6 mi away, 58% (this school: 50%)
- **KIPP BEYOND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 82.8% (this school: 50%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-165-robert-e-simon-new-york
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-165-robert-e-simon-new-york/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-165-robert-e-simon-new-york/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-165-robert-e-simon-new-york/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-165-robert-e-simon-new-york/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-165-robert-e-simon-new-york/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-165-robert-e-simon-new-york/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-165-robert-e-simon-new-york/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-165-robert-e-simon-new-york/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-165-robert-e-simon-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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