# PS 26 RUFUS KING

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009902129`
- **School name**: PS 26 RUFUS KING
- **Location**: FLUSHING, NY 11365
- **Address**: 195-02 69TH AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 (LEAID `3600099`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.73660, -73.77800
- **Phone**: (718)464-4505

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 548
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - 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 21.3% (144 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 17.1% (98 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**: 1.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.7%
- **Black/African American**: 59.7%
- **Asian**: 8.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 13.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 69.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.9% — 108 students
- **English Learners**: 13.3% — 76 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 42 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,331
- **Federal share**: $4,018
- **State + local share**: $24,313
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 573
### 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**: $86,058
- **Poverty rate**: 6.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 54.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,207
- **Foreign-born residents**: 48.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.9 miles (STANTON CLEANERS AREA GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.72 miles (33 10 154TH STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SOUTH ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.82155 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS Q4** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.4%)
- **PS 177** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.4%)
- **JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.4%)
- **PS/IS 178 HOLLISWOOD** — 0.8 mi away, 0.95% (this school: 1.4%)
- **PS 173 FRESH MEADOWS** — 0.9 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 1.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 58%)
- **JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN** — 0.9 mi away, 76% (this school: 58%)
- **PS 173 FRESH MEADOWS** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 58%)
- **PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL** — 1.1 mi away, 79% (this school: 58%)
- **PS 46 ALLEY POND** — 1.2 mi away, 63% (this school: 58%)

### math proficiency
- **JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE** — 0.8 mi away, 91% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 162 JOHN GOLDEN** — 0.8 mi away, 79% (this school: 64%)
- **JHS 216 GEORGE J RYAN** — 0.9 mi away, 89.5% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 173 FRESH MEADOWS** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 205 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL** — 1.1 mi away, 82% (this school: 64%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-26-rufus-king-flushing
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-26-rufus-king-flushing/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-26-rufus-king-flushing/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-26-rufus-king-flushing/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-26-rufus-king-flushing/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-26-rufus-king-flushing/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-26-rufus-king-flushing/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-26-rufus-king-flushing/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-26-rufus-king-flushing/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-26-rufus-king-flushing/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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