# PS 239

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009805564`
- **School name**: PS 239
- **Location**: RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385
- **Address**: 17-15 WEIRFIELD ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 (LEAID `3600098`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.69960, -73.90380
- **Phone**: (718)417-2840

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 414
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - 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 31.6% (150 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.6% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.8% (32 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 36.1% (148 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**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 73.1%
- **Black/African American**: 13.2%
- **Asian**: 1.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 11.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 30.5% — 125 students
- **English Learners**: 32.7% — 134 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 45 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 32 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $33,618
- **Federal share**: $4,501
- **State + local share**: $29,117
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 410
### 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**: $91,604
- **Poverty rate**: 8.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 39.4%
- **Unemployment**: 9.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,307
- **Foreign-born residents**: 46.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.5 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 136
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.50 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL CORP PARCEL 1)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.36016 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ROBERT E PEARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.61%)
- **JOSEPH F QUINN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL 77** — 0.1 mi away, 3.99% (this school: 5.61%)
- **PS 68 CAMBRIDGE** — 0.4 mi away, 4.63% (this school: 5.61%)
- **IS 93 RIDGEWOOD** — 0.4 mi away, 3.61% (this school: 5.61%)
- **BUSHWICK ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0.65% (this school: 5.61%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 68 CAMBRIDGE** — 0.4 mi away, 32% (this school: 25%)
- **IS 93 RIDGEWOOD** — 0.4 mi away, 41% (this school: 25%)
- **BUSHWICK ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 48% (this school: 25%)
- **PS 151 LYNDON B JOHNSON** — 0.5 mi away, 33% (this school: 25%)
- **PS 88 SENECA** — 0.5 mi away, 39% (this school: 25%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 68 CAMBRIDGE** — 0.4 mi away, 39% (this school: 34%)
- **IS 93 RIDGEWOOD** — 0.4 mi away, 37.4% (this school: 34%)
- **BUSHWICK ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 53% (this school: 34%)
- **PS 151 LYNDON B JOHNSON** — 0.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 34%)
- **PS 88 SENECA** — 0.5 mi away, 53% (this school: 34%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-239-ridgewood
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-239-ridgewood/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-239-ridgewood/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-239-ridgewood/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-239-ridgewood/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-239-ridgewood/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-239-ridgewood/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-239-ridgewood/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-239-ridgewood/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-239-ridgewood/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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