# PS 78

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010306362`
- **School name**: PS 78
- **Location**: STATEN ISLAND, NY 10304
- **Address**: 100 TOMPKINS AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 (LEAID `3600103`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.62230, -74.07870
- **Phone**: (718)442-3094

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 454
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 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 70.3% (466 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.1% (39 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 18.8% (90 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 64.4% (309 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**: 1.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 45.9%
- **Black/African American**: 2.8%
- **Asian**: 43.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.8%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 53.8% — 258 students
- **English Learners**: 14.8% — 71 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 115 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 62 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $42,278
- **Federal share**: $5,906
- **State + local share**: $36,372
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 480
### 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**: $61,591
- **Poverty rate**: 27.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.2%
- **Unemployment**: 6.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $601
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.2 miles (CHEMICAL CONTROL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 33
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.90 miles (450 OCEAN TERRACE REAR)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUNSHINE ACRES MHC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.91525 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF STATEN ISLAND (THE)** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.12%)
- **PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)** — 0.8 mi away, 0.84% (this school: 8.12%)
- **PS 13 M L LINDEMEYER** — 0.8 mi away, 1.94% (this school: 8.12%)
- **PS 57 HUBERT H HUMPHREY** — 0.8 mi away, 4.64% (this school: 8.12%)
- **CONCORD HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 6.06% (this school: 8.12%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 13 M L LINDEMEYER** — 0.8 mi away, 56% (this school: 28%)
- **PS 57 HUBERT H HUMPHREY** — 0.8 mi away, 32% (this school: 28%)
- **IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS** — 1.3 mi away, 37% (this school: 28%)
- **PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS** — 1.4 mi away, 33% (this school: 28%)
- **PS 48 WILLIAM G WILCOX** — 1.5 mi away, 64% (this school: 28%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 13 M L LINDEMEYER** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 34%)
- **IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS** — 1.3 mi away, 40.8% (this school: 34%)
- **PS 31 WILLIAM T DAVIS** — 1.4 mi away, 37% (this school: 34%)
- **PS 48 WILLIAM G WILCOX** — 1.5 mi away, 78.6% (this school: 34%)
- **NAPLES STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 97% (this school: 34%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-78-staten-island
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-78-staten-island/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-78-staten-island/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-78-staten-island/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-78-staten-island/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-78-staten-island/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-78-staten-island/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-78-staten-island/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-78-staten-island/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-78-staten-island/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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