# PS 88 SENECA

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009802340`
- **School name**: PS 88 SENECA
- **Location**: RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385
- **Address**: 60-85 CATALPA AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 (LEAID `3600098`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.70410, -73.89640
- **Phone**: (718)821-8121

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 692
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 51
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 73.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 3
  - 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 24.6% (173 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 40.6% (279 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**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 49.3%
- **Black/African American**: 10.4%
- **Asian**: 2.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 36.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.6% — 155 students
- **English Learners**: 17.8% — 122 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 48 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $34,761
- **Federal share**: $4,870
- **State + local share**: $29,891
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 687
### 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**: $96,897
- **Poverty rate**: 7.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 48.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,149
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.8 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 134
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.87 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL CORP PARCEL 1)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.36016 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ROBERT E PEARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.02%)
- **ACE ACADEMY FOR SCHOLARS AT THE GERALDINE FERRARO CAMPUS** — 0.9 mi away, 0.9% (this school: 1.02%)
- **PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY** — 0.9 mi away, 0.85% (this school: 1.02%)
- **PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.02%)
- **BUSHWICK ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0.65% (this school: 1.02%)

### ela proficiency
- **IS 93 RIDGEWOOD** — 0.4 mi away, 41% (this school: 39%)
- **PS 91 RICHARD ARKWRIGHT** — 0.6 mi away, 41% (this school: 39%)
- **PS 71 FOREST** — 0.7 mi away, 41% (this school: 39%)
- **PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY** — 0.9 mi away, 51% (this school: 39%)
- **PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY** — 0.9 mi away, 68% (this school: 39%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 153 MASPETH ELEMENTARY** — 0.9 mi away, 57% (this school: 53%)
- **PS 128 LORRAINE TUZZO-JUNIPER VALLEY** — 0.9 mi away, 69.2% (this school: 53%)
- **PS/IS 87 MIDDLE VILLAGE** — 1.4 mi away, 56.5% (this school: 53%)
- **PS 65** — 1.5 mi away, 69% (this school: 53%)
- **PS 49 DOROTHY BONAWIT KOLE** — 1.5 mi away, 77.8% (this school: 53%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-88-seneca-ridgewood
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-88-seneca-ridgewood/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-88-seneca-ridgewood/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-88-seneca-ridgewood/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-88-seneca-ridgewood/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-88-seneca-ridgewood/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-88-seneca-ridgewood/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-88-seneca-ridgewood/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-88-seneca-ridgewood/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-88-seneca-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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