# BELLE SHERMAN SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/belle-sherman-school-ithaca

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361557001329`
- **School name**: BELLE SHERMAN SCHOOL
- **Location**: ITHACA, NY 14850
- **Address**: 501 MITCHELL ST
- **District**: ITHACA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3615570`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.43730, -76.47790
- **Phone**: (607)274-2206

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 347
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 29.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Weight 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 17.1% (54 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 25.7% (82 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 9.8%
- **Black/African American**: 17.7%
- **Asian**: 7.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 52.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 12.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 31.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.0% — 35 students
- **English Learners**: 18.8% — 60 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,395
- **Federal share**: $1,260
- **State + local share**: $27,135
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 319
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $31,275,551
- **Federal share**: 10.0%
- **State share**: 25.4%
- **Local share**: 64.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,570,541

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $43,883
- **Poverty rate**: 23.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 97.6%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,046
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.7 miles (ROSEN BROTHERS SCRAP YARD DUMP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.15 miles (ITHACA FALLS OVERLOOK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CORNELL UNIVERSITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-04-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **SOUTH HILL SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 56% (this school: 44%)
- **BOYNTON MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 56% (this school: 44%)
- **DEWITT MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 59% (this school: 44%)
- **CAROLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.2 mi away, 55% (this school: 44%)
- **RAYMOND C BUCKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 7.9 mi away, 63% (this school: 44%)

### math proficiency
- **SOUTH HILL SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 60% (this school: 54%)
- **BOYNTON MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 69% (this school: 54%)
- **DEWITT MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 71% (this school: 54%)
- **RAYMOND C BUCKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 7.9 mi away, 72% (this school: 54%)
- **LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 7.9 mi away, 74.2% (this school: 54%)

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