# PS 63 OLD SOUTH

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012302268`
- **School name**: PS 63 OLD SOUTH
- **Location**: OZONE PARK, NY 11417
- **Address**: 90-15 SUTTER AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 (LEAID `3600123`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.67690, -73.84680
- **Phone**: (718)845-7560

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 957
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 68
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 4
  - 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 25.1% (273 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.9% (49 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 31.9% (321 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**: 3.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 44.9%
- **Black/African American**: 39.6%
- **Asian**: 4.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.8%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.6% — 197 students
- **English Learners**: 17.3% — 174 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 89 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,767
- **Federal share**: $3,623
- **State + local share**: $27,144
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,006
### 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**: $80,464
- **Poverty rate**: 12.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.3%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,752
- **Foreign-born residents**: 42.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.1 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 47
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.47 miles (103 154 99TH STREET)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES** — 0.4 mi away, 0.67% (this school: 1.59%)
- **ROBERT H GODDARD HS-COMM/TECH** — 0.4 mi away, 0.98% (this school: 1.59%)
- **PS 64 JOSEPH P ADDABBO** — 0.6 mi away, 0.64% (this school: 1.59%)
- **PS 232 LINDENWOOD** — 0.8 mi away, 0.98% (this school: 1.59%)
- **PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER** — 0.8 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 1.59%)

### ela proficiency
- **MS 137 AMERICA'S SCHOOL OF HEROES** — 0.4 mi away, 55% (this school: 54%)
- **JHS 202 ROBERT H GODDARD** — 0.4 mi away, 55% (this school: 54%)
- **PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER** — 0.8 mi away, 58% (this school: 54%)
- **PS 207 ROCKWOOD PARK** — 1.3 mi away, 57% (this school: 54%)
- **PS 146 HOWARD BEACH** — 1.3 mi away, 59% (this school: 54%)

### math proficiency
- **JHS 202 ROBERT H GODDARD** — 0.4 mi away, 65% (this school: 62%)
- **PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER** — 0.8 mi away, 69% (this school: 62%)
- **PS 207 ROCKWOOD PARK** — 1.3 mi away, 71.5% (this school: 62%)
- **PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS** — 1.4 mi away, 90% (this school: 62%)
- **PS 938** — 1.6 mi away, 68% (this school: 62%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-63-old-south-ozone-park
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-63-old-south-ozone-park/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-63-old-south-ozone-park/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-63-old-south-ozone-park/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-63-old-south-ozone-park/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-63-old-south-ozone-park/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-63-old-south-ozone-park/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-63-old-south-ozone-park/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-63-old-south-ozone-park/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-63-old-south-ozone-park/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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