# PS 54 HILLSIDE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010002236`
- **School name**: PS 54 HILLSIDE
- **Location**: RICHMOND HILL, NY 11418
- **Address**: 86-02 127TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 (LEAID `3600100`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.70270, -73.82440
- **Phone**: (718)849-0962

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 462
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 2
  - 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 21.1% (100 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.7% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 10.6% (47 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 37.7% (167 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**: 4.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 58.1%
- **Black/African American**: 28.8%
- **Asian**: 4.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.7%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.5% — 91 students
- **English Learners**: 33.4% — 148 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 30 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,603
- **Federal share**: $4,339
- **State + local share**: $26,264
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 444
### 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**: $63,409
- **Poverty rate**: 7.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.3%
- **Unemployment**: 9.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,626
- **Foreign-born residents**: 65.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.1 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 36
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.10 miles (97 04 SUTPHIN BLVD)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 51** — 0.5 mi away, 2.36% (this school: 4.74%)
- **PS 99 KEW GARDENS** — 0.6 mi away, 1.88% (this school: 4.74%)
- **PS 56 HARRY EICHLER** — 0.6 mi away, 3.36% (this school: 4.74%)
- **RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 2.3% (this school: 4.74%)
- **EPIC HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH** — 0.7 mi away, 2.33% (this school: 4.74%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 99 KEW GARDENS** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 45%)
- **PS 56 HARRY EICHLER** — 0.6 mi away, 47% (this school: 45%)
- **PS 55 MAURE** — 0.7 mi away, 56% (this school: 45%)
- **PS 161 ARTHUR ASHE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 50% (this school: 45%)
- **PS 62 CHESTER PARK SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 49% (this school: 45%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 99 KEW GARDENS** — 0.6 mi away, 79.5% (this school: 59%)
- **PS 55 MAURE** — 0.7 mi away, 69% (this school: 59%)
- **PS 161 ARTHUR ASHE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 59%)
- **PS 86** — 1.2 mi away, 63% (this school: 59%)
- **PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS** — 1.2 mi away, 90% (this school: 59%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-54-hillside-richmond-hill
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-54-hillside-richmond-hill/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-54-hillside-richmond-hill/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-54-hillside-richmond-hill/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-54-hillside-richmond-hill/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-54-hillside-richmond-hill/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-54-hillside-richmond-hill/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-54-hillside-richmond-hill/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-54-hillside-richmond-hill/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-54-hillside-richmond-hill/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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