# PS 234

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010205553`
- **School name**: PS 234
- **Location**: ASTORIA, NY 11102
- **Address**: 30-15 29TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 (LEAID `3600102`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.76700, -73.92310
- **Phone**: (718)956-2760

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 465
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 63.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - 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 15.5% (63 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 30.7% (134 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**: 1.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 42.0%
- **Black/African American**: 17.2%
- **Asian**: 9.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 29.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 71.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.8% — 82 students
- **English Learners**: 20.1% — 88 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,233
- **Federal share**: $4,609
- **State + local share**: $26,624
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 437
### 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**: $95,714
- **Poverty rate**: 8.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 67.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,253
- **Foreign-born residents**: 40.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.0 miles (MEEKER AVENUE PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 154
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.65 miles (NELSON FOUNDRY)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.70496 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.69%)
- **YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP SCHOOL - ASTORIA** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.69%)
- **FRANK SINATRA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0.47% (this school: 0.69%)
- **BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.69%)
- **PS 122 MAMIE FAY** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.69%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 122 MAMIE FAY** — 1.0 mi away, 79% (this school: 72%)
- **PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND** — 1.3 mi away, 73% (this school: 72%)
- **PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR** — 1.5 mi away, 83% (this school: 72%)
- **YORKVILLE EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 85% (this school: 72%)
- **EAST SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 85% (this school: 72%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 85 JUDGE CHARLES VALLONE** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 65%)
- **PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN** — 0.7 mi away, 71% (this school: 65%)
- **PS 122 MAMIE FAY** — 1.0 mi away, 88.8% (this school: 65%)
- **MS 429** — 1.3 mi away, 71% (this school: 65%)
- **PS/IS 217 ROOSEVELT ISLAND** — 1.3 mi away, 70% (this school: 65%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-234-astoria
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-234-astoria/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-234-astoria/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-234-astoria/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-234-astoria/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-234-astoria/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-234-astoria/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-234-astoria/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-234-astoria/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-234-astoria/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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