# PS/IS 224

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008405520`
- **School name**: PS/IS 224
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10454
- **Address**: 345 BROOK AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 7 (LEAID `3600084`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.81011, -73.91821
- **Phone**: (718)665-9804

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 169
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Comprehensive Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Growth: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 1
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - overall_status: Comprehensive Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 54.9% (134 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.0% (28 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 18.7% (35 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 83.4% (156 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**: 1.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 68.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 27.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 52.9% — 99 students
- **English Learners**: 42.3% — 79 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 35 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $47,792
- **Federal share**: $11,347
- **State + local share**: $36,444
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 187
### 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**: $21,819
- **Poverty rate**: 43.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.1%
- **Unemployment**: 20.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $883
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.7 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 97
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.27 miles (351 EAST 139TH STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KINGSTON CENTER AN0
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 11
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-29

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.83136 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ACADEMY OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY** — 0.0 mi away, 7.25% (this school: 14.97%)
- **PS 30 WILTON** — 0.1 mi away, 14.32% (this school: 14.97%)
- **PS 179** — 0.1 mi away, 12.32% (this school: 14.97%)
- **BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN** — 0.2 mi away, 5.59% (this school: 14.97%)
- **BRILLA COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 12.4% (this school: 14.97%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 179** — 0.1 mi away, 32% (this school: 29%)
- **YOUNG LEADERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 37% (this school: 29%)
- **BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN** — 0.2 mi away, 45% (this school: 29%)
- **PS 49 WILLIS AVENUE** — 0.2 mi away, 44% (this school: 29%)
- **MOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 42% (this school: 29%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 179** — 0.1 mi away, 36% (this school: 23.5%)
- **YOUNG LEADERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 47% (this school: 23.5%)
- **BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN** — 0.2 mi away, 52.75% (this school: 23.5%)
- **CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 28% (this school: 23.5%)
- **PS 49 WILLIS AVENUE** — 0.2 mi away, 62% (this school: 23.5%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-224-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-224-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-224-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-224-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-224-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-224-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-224-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-224-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-224-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-224-bronx/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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