# PS 71 FOREST

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009802292`
- **School name**: PS 71 FOREST
- **Location**: RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385
- **Address**: 62-85 FOREST AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 (LEAID `3600098`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.71140, -73.90470
- **Phone**: (718)821-7772

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 468
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 1
  - 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 28.9% (187 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 8.5% (44 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 42.6% (220 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**: 4.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 53.5%
- **Black/African American**: 4.0%
- **Asian**: 1.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 35.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.9%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.4% — 136 students
- **English Learners**: 21.9% — 113 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 46 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 27 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $34,232
- **Federal share**: $5,719
- **State + local share**: $28,513
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 516
### 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**: $72,222
- **Poverty rate**: 16.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.9%
- **Unemployment**: 11.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,039
- **Foreign-born residents**: 47.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.3 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 142
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.32 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL CORP PARCEL 1)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.36016 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ACE ACADEMY FOR SCHOLARS AT THE GERALDINE FERRARO CAMPUS** — 0.2 mi away, 0.9% (this school: 1.74%)
- **PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY** — 0.3 mi away, 0.85% (this school: 1.74%)
- **PS 9** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.74%)
- **PS 88 SENECA** — 0.7 mi away, 1.02% (this school: 1.74%)
- **MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 1.11% (this school: 1.74%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY** — 0.3 mi away, 51% (this school: 41%)
- **LEARNERS AND LEADERS** — 0.6 mi away, 42% (this school: 41%)
- **PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY** — 1.0 mi away, 68% (this school: 41%)
- **JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLER** — 1.2 mi away, 47% (this school: 41%)
- **BUSHWICK ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 48% (this school: 41%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY** — 0.3 mi away, 57% (this school: 50%)
- **PS 88 SENECA** — 0.7 mi away, 53% (this school: 50%)
- **PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY** — 1.0 mi away, 69.2% (this school: 50%)
- **JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLER** — 1.2 mi away, 52.6% (this school: 50%)
- **BUSHWICK ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 53% (this school: 50%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-71-forest-ridgewood
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-71-forest-ridgewood/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-71-forest-ridgewood/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-71-forest-ridgewood/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-71-forest-ridgewood/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-71-forest-ridgewood/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-71-forest-ridgewood/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-71-forest-ridgewood/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-71-forest-ridgewood/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-71-forest-ridgewood/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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