# PS 173 FRESH MEADOWS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009902610`
- **School name**: PS 173 FRESH MEADOWS
- **Location**: FLUSHING, NY 11365
- **Address**: 174-10 67TH AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 (LEAID `3600099`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.73420, -73.79540
- **Phone**: (718)358-2243

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 950
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 63
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 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 12.3% (109 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.1% (76 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**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.1%
- **Black/African American**: 60.2%
- **Asian**: 1.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 23.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 65.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.2% — 123 students
- **English Learners**: 10.5% — 98 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 54 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 36 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,100
- **Federal share**: $3,634
- **State + local share**: $23,465
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 935
### 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**: $94,397
- **Poverty rate**: 4.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.6%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,907
- **Foreign-born residents**: 54.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.6 miles (STANTON CLEANERS AREA GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 25
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.42 miles (33 10 154TH STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SOUTH ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.82155 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 177** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS** — 0.8 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 0.53%)
- **PS 255** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **QUEENS SCHOOL OF INQUIRY (THE)** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **PS Q4** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)

### ela proficiency
- **JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN** — 0.2 mi away, 76% (this school: 66%)
- **JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 130** — 1.9 mi away, 72% (this school: 66%)
- **MS 158 MARIE CURIE** — 1.9 mi away, 76% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL** — 2.1 mi away, 79% (this school: 66%)

### math proficiency
- **JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN** — 0.2 mi away, 89.5% (this school: 80%)
- **PS 163 FLUSHING HEIGHTS** — 0.8 mi away, 81% (this school: 80%)
- **JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE** — 1.7 mi away, 91% (this school: 80%)
- **PS 24 ANDREW JACKSON** — 1.7 mi away, 83% (this school: 80%)
- **PS 95 EASTWOOD** — 1.7 mi away, 81% (this school: 80%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-173-fresh-meadows-flushing
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-173-fresh-meadows-flushing/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-173-fresh-meadows-flushing/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-173-fresh-meadows-flushing/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-173-fresh-meadows-flushing/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-173-fresh-meadows-flushing/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-173-fresh-meadows-flushing/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-173-fresh-meadows-flushing/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-173-fresh-meadows-flushing/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-173-fresh-meadows-flushing/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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