# PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012102559`
- **School name**: PS/IS 155 NICHOLAS HERKIMER
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11233
- **Address**: 1355 HERKIMER ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 (LEAID `3600121`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.67760, -73.90880
- **Phone**: (718)240-4340

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 298
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - 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 48.4% (162 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.2% (34 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 24.1% (89 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 70.7% (261 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**: 46.3%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 48.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.6% — 87 students
- **English Learners**: 18.2% — 67 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 41 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $34,615
- **Federal share**: $5,095
- **State + local share**: $29,520
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 372
### 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**: $39,513
- **Poverty rate**: 27.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.9%
- **Unemployment**: 7.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,433
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.1 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 123
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.66 miles (1901 1903 ATLANTIC AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CORNER STONE COURT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.36016 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BROOKLYN LANDMARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 9.21%)
- **BROOKLYN ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLORATION SCHOOL (BEES)** — 0.2 mi away, 4.85% (this school: 9.21%)
- **BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 5.59% (this school: 9.21%)
- **ACHIEVEMENT FIRST BROWNSVILLE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 7.46% (this school: 9.21%)
- **EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 9.21%)

### ela proficiency
- **EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II** — 0.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 41%)
- **PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER** — 0.7 mi away, 54% (this school: 41%)
- **BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 45% (this school: 41%)
- **PS 5 DR RONALD MCNAIR** — 0.9 mi away, 63% (this school: 41%)
- **PS 21 CRISPUS ATTUCKS** — 0.9 mi away, 58% (this school: 41%)

### math proficiency
- **EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II** — 0.4 mi away, 85.2% (this school: 39.4%)
- **PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL** — 0.5 mi away, 54% (this school: 39.4%)
- **DR JACQUELINE PEEK-DAVIS SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 51% (this school: 39.4%)
- **PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER** — 0.7 mi away, 73% (this school: 39.4%)
- **BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 48% (this school: 39.4%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-155-nicholas-herkimer-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-155-nicholas-herkimer-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-155-nicholas-herkimer-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-155-nicholas-herkimer-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-155-nicholas-herkimer-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-155-nicholas-herkimer-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-155-nicholas-herkimer-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-155-nicholas-herkimer-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-155-nicholas-herkimer-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-155-nicholas-herkimer-brooklyn/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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