# PS 181

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009502631`
- **School name**: PS 181
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11203
- **Address**: 1023 NEW YORK AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 (LEAID `3600095`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.64820, -73.94600
- **Phone**: (718)462-5298

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 568
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - 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 47.6% (282 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.0% (34 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.8% (27 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 40.2% (226 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**: 1.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 85.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.2% — 136 students
- **English Learners**: 17.1% — 96 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 44 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 33 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $33,448
- **Federal share**: $6,539
- **State + local share**: $26,909
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 563
### 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**: $91,061
- **Poverty rate**: 16.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.1%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,782
- **Foreign-born residents**: 45.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.2 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 90
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.58 miles (1075 1079 CONEY ISLAND AVENUE)

### 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
- **EAST FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EFACS)** — 0.5 mi away, 1.36% (this school: 6.05%)
- **FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.05%)
- **PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 1.25% (this school: 6.05%)
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FLATBUSH** — 0.6 mi away, 1.42% (this school: 6.05%)
- **PS 141** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.05%)

### ela proficiency
- **MS 246 WALT WHITMAN** — 0.4 mi away, 36% (this school: 31%)
- **PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 48% (this school: 31%)
- **EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 64% (this school: 31%)
- **ACAD FOR COLLEGE PREP AND CAREER EXP** — 0.6 mi away, 41% (this school: 31%)
- **PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE** — 0.7 mi away, 62% (this school: 31%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 56% (this school: 46.25%)
- **EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 46.25%)
- **PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE** — 0.7 mi away, 77% (this school: 46.25%)
- **PS 135 SHELDON A BROOKNER** — 0.8 mi away, 50% (this school: 46.25%)
- **PS 208 ELSA EBELING** — 0.9 mi away, 70% (this school: 46.25%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-181-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-181-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-181-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-181-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-181-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-181-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-181-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-181-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-181-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-181-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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