# PS 256

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360013504817`
- **School name**: PS 256
- **Location**: SYOSSET, NY 11791
- **Address**: 525 CONVENT RD
- **District**: NYC SPECIAL SCHOOLS - DISTRICT 75 (LEAID `3600135`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Special education
- **School level**: Other
- **Coordinates**: 40.82120, -73.48900
- **Phone**: (516)921-0450

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 543
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 114
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 4.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.0%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 89.7% (460 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 49.8% (268 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**: 1.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 30.1%
- **Black/African American**: 6.3%
- **Asian**: 50.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 82.2% — 442 students
- **English Learners**: 12.6% — 68 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $103,820
- **Federal share**: $2,490
- **State + local share**: $101,330
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 545
### 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**: $154,444
- **Poverty rate**: 2.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 71.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,474
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.5 miles (HOOKER CHEMICAL PLASTICS CORP RUCO POLYMER CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 31
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.52 miles (ROTUNDO)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: JERICHO WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.4 miles

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-syosset/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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