# PS 321 WILLIAM PENN

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009202818`
- **School name**: PS 321 WILLIAM PENN
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11215
- **Address**: 180 7TH AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 (LEAID `3600092`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.67170, -73.97830
- **Phone**: (718)499-2412

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,305
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 81
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 5.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core 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 13.8% (177 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.6% (106 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**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 6.9%
- **Black/African American**: 7.3%
- **Asian**: 2.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 71.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 11.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 6.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.3% — 189 students
- **English Learners**: 2.5% — 31 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 51 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 42 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 41 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,483
- **Federal share**: $3,111
- **State + local share**: $22,372
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,234
### 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**: $214,340
- **Poverty rate**: 2.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 88.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,178
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.8 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 122
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.21 miles (1194 PROSPECT 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**: 3.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MAURICE SENDAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.16%)
- **PS 77** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.16%)
- **PS 372 CHILDREN'S SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.16%)
- **PS 107 JOHN W KIMBALL** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.16%)
- **MATH AND SCIENCE EXPLORATORY SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.16%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 39 HENRY BRISTOW** — 0.3 mi away, 94% (this school: 84%)
- **PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN** — 1.1 mi away, 91% (this school: 84%)
- **PS 29 JOHN M HARRIGAN** — 1.5 mi away, 85% (this school: 84%)
- **PS 172 BEACON SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE** — 1.5 mi away, 93% (this school: 84%)
- **SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 85% (this school: 84%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 172 BEACON SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE** — 1.5 mi away, 99% (this school: 91%)
- **PS 184 SHUANG WEN** — 2.8 mi away, 95% (this school: 91%)
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 3.1 mi away, 94% (this school: 91%)
- **PS 31 SAMUEL F DUPONT** — 4.0 mi away, 94% (this school: 91%)
- **MS 255 SALK SCHOOL OF SCIENCE** — 4.4 mi away, 95.8% (this school: 91%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-321-william-penn-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-321-william-penn-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-321-william-penn-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-321-william-penn-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-321-william-penn-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-321-william-penn-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-321-william-penn-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-321-william-penn-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-321-william-penn-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-321-william-penn-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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