# PS 253

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015202767`
- **School name**: PS 253
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11235
- **Address**: 601 OCEANVIEW AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (LEAID `3600152`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.57990, -73.96190
- **Phone**: (718)332-3331

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 955
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 65
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 1
  - 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 35.4% (304 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.2% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.5% (169 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2017
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 1
- **Expulsions**: 0
- **Restraint incidents**: 0
- **Seclusion incidents**: 0
- **Referrals to law enforcement**: 0
- **Bullying allegations**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.2% — 130 students
- **English Learners**: 18.9% — 173 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 37 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,599
- **Federal share**: $4,128
- **State + local share**: $24,471
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 913
### 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**: $59,938
- **Poverty rate**: 10.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.5%
- **Unemployment**: 16.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,764
- **Foreign-born residents**: 67.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.2 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.83 miles (2975 AVENUE U)

### 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**: 5.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 771** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.19%)
- **PS 225 EILEEN E ZAGLIN (THE)** — 0.3 mi away, 1.8% (this school: 2.19%)
- **PS 370** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.19%)
- **IS 98 BAY ACADEMY** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.19%)
- **PS 100 CONEY ISLAND SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.5 mi away, 1.49% (this school: 2.19%)

### ela proficiency
- **IS 98 BAY ACADEMY** — 0.5 mi away, 85% (this school: 63%)
- **PS 195 MANHATTAN BEACH** — 0.9 mi away, 73% (this school: 63%)
- **IS 228 DAVID A BOODY** — 1.7 mi away, 64% (this school: 63%)
- **BROOKLYN SCHOOL OF INQUIRY** — 2.3 mi away, 88% (this school: 63%)
- **PS 247** — 2.6 mi away, 64% (this school: 63%)

### math proficiency
- **IS 98 BAY ACADEMY** — 0.5 mi away, 95.8% (this school: 81%)
- **PS 195 MANHATTAN BEACH** — 0.9 mi away, 85% (this school: 81%)
- **BROOKLYN SCHOOL OF INQUIRY** — 2.3 mi away, 94.6% (this school: 81%)
- **PS 163 BATH BEACH** — 3.0 mi away, 90.4% (this school: 81%)
- **PS 134** — 3.7 mi away, 88% (this school: 81%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-253-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-253-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-253-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-253-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-253-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-253-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-253-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-253-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-253-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-253-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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