# PS 245

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015300800`
- **School name**: PS 245
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11226
- **Address**: 249 E 17TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22 (LEAID `3600153`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.64480, -73.96290
- **Phone**: (718)284-2330

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 228
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.9%

## 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: 3
  - 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 33.6% (87 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.7% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.6% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.9% (49 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**: 3.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 40.5%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 51.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 31.7% — 71 students
- **English Learners**: 9.4% — 21 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $34,341
- **Federal share**: $6,831
- **State + local share**: $27,510
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 224
### 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**: $82,240
- **Poverty rate**: 13.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,705
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.8 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 80
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.95 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**: 7.19846 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 249 CATON (THE)** — 0.4 mi away, 1.86% (this school: 2.68%)
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FLATBUSH** — 0.4 mi away, 1.42% (this school: 2.68%)
- **SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH EARLY COLLEGE** — 0.4 mi away, 1.4% (this school: 2.68%)
- **PS 889** — 0.4 mi away, 1.23% (this school: 2.68%)
- **MS 890** — 0.4 mi away, 2.55% (this school: 2.68%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY** — 0.3 mi away, 54% (this school: 51%)
- **MS 890** — 0.4 mi away, 58% (this school: 51%)
- **MS 839** — 0.6 mi away, 60% (this school: 51%)
- **JHS 62 DITMAS** — 0.6 mi away, 57% (this school: 51%)
- **PS 230 DORIS L COHEN** — 0.9 mi away, 55% (this school: 51%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY** — 0.3 mi away, 55% (this school: 53%)
- **MS 890** — 0.4 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 53%)
- **MS 839** — 0.6 mi away, 62% (this school: 53%)
- **JHS 62 DITMAS** — 0.6 mi away, 63.6% (this school: 53%)
- **PS 230 DORIS L COHEN** — 0.9 mi away, 62% (this school: 53%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-245-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-245-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-245-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-245-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-245-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-245-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-245-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-245-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-245-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-245-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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