# PS 55 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008602238`
- **School name**: PS 55 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10456
- **Address**: 450 ST PAUL'S PL
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 (LEAID `3600086`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.83614, -73.90493
- **Phone**: (718)681-6227

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 495
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Comprehensive Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 1
  - EM Growth: 1
  - overall_status: Comprehensive Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.6% (239 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.9% (39 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 16.0% (79 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 60.1% (297 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**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 50.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 48.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.5% — 121 students
- **English Learners**: 15.8% — 78 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 58 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $34,150
- **Federal share**: $5,358
- **State + local share**: $28,792
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 496
### 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**: $21,533
- **Poverty rate**: 42.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.3%
- **Unemployment**: 20.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $473
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 37.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.9 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 50
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.67 miles (491 E 165TH STREET 1052 WASHINGTON)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KINGSTON CENTER AN0
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 11
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-29

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.83136 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 2** — 0.0 mi away, 3.68% (this school: 7.89%)
- **IS 219 NEW VENTURE SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 2.24% (this school: 7.89%)
- **EXIMIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY:  A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 5.85% (this school: 7.89%)
- **BRONX CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS** — 0.2 mi away, 5.74% (this school: 7.89%)
- **ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 1** — 0.2 mi away, 1.78% (this school: 7.89%)

### ela proficiency
- **KAPPA** — 0.2 mi away, 46% (this school: 23%)
- **PS 42 CLAREMONT** — 0.2 mi away, 25% (this school: 23%)
- **ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 1** — 0.2 mi away, 81% (this school: 23%)
- **PS 110 THEODORE SCHOENFELD** — 0.2 mi away, 29% (this school: 23%)
- **MOTT HALL III** — 0.2 mi away, 48% (this school: 23%)

### math proficiency
- **IS 219 NEW VENTURE SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 31.5% (this school: 22%)
- **KAPPA** — 0.2 mi away, 59.8% (this school: 22%)
- **PS 42 CLAREMONT** — 0.2 mi away, 37% (this school: 22%)
- **ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 1** — 0.2 mi away, 94% (this school: 22%)
- **PS 110 THEODORE SCHOENFELD** — 0.2 mi away, 33% (this school: 22%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-55-benjamin-franklin-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-55-benjamin-franklin-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-55-benjamin-franklin-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-55-benjamin-franklin-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-55-benjamin-franklin-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-55-benjamin-franklin-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-55-benjamin-franklin-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-55-benjamin-franklin-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-55-benjamin-franklin-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-55-benjamin-franklin-bronx/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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