# PS 96

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012302365`
- **School name**: PS 96
- **Location**: SOUTH OZONE PARK, NY 11420
- **Address**: 130-01 ROCKAWAY BLVD
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 (LEAID `3600123`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.67540, -73.80800
- **Phone**: (718)529-2547

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 310
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 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 31.3% (91 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.2% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.1% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 24.7% (79 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**: 17.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.5%
- **Black/African American**: 39.7%
- **Asian**: 19.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 2.4%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.7% — 31 students
- **English Learners**: 13.1% — 42 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,025
- **Federal share**: $3,999
- **State + local share**: $21,026
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 321
### 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**: $79,539
- **Poverty rate**: 16.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.1%
- **Unemployment**: 13.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,813
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.1 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 25
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.47 miles (97 04 SUTPHIN BLVD)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 155** — 0.3 mi away, 1.37% (this school: 2.19%)
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA** — 0.4 mi away, 1.62% (this school: 2.19%)
- **HAWTREE CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0.51% (this school: 2.19%)
- **QUEENS TRANSITION CENTER** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.19%)
- **PS 121** — 0.7 mi away, 0.84% (this school: 2.19%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 155** — 0.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 65%)
- **PS 121** — 0.7 mi away, 82% (this school: 65%)
- **PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 65%)
- **PS 99 KEW GARDENS** — 2.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 65%)
- **PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE** — 3.1 mi away, 67% (this school: 65%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 155** — 0.3 mi away, 74% (this school: 71%)
- **PS 121** — 0.7 mi away, 92% (this school: 71%)
- **PS 207 ROCKWOOD PARK** — 2.2 mi away, 71.5% (this school: 71%)
- **RIVERTON STREET CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 82.6% (this school: 71%)
- **PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS** — 2.5 mi away, 90% (this school: 71%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-96-south-ozone-park
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-96-south-ozone-park/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-96-south-ozone-park/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-96-south-ozone-park/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-96-south-ozone-park/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-96-south-ozone-park/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-96-south-ozone-park/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-96-south-ozone-park/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-96-south-ozone-park/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-96-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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