# FOOD AND FINANCE HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007705622`
- **School name**: FOOD AND FINANCE HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10019
- **Address**: 525 W 50TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (LEAID `3600077`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Career and technical
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.76560, -73.99290
- **Phone**: (212)586-2943
- **Wikidata QID**: Q61933642

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 474
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 2
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS ELP: 1
  - HS Core Performance: 2
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - HS Grad Rate: 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.0% (cohort of 94)
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 88)
- **2019**: 87.0% (cohort of 82)
- **2018**: 87.0% (cohort of 84)
- **2017**: 92.0% (cohort of 86)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 42.7% (179 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.6% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.2% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 26.6% (121 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**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 56.6%
- **Black/African American**: 5.1%
- **Asian**: 32.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.8% — 81 students
- **English Learners**: 4.4% — 20 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 43 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,643
- **Federal share**: $5,595
- **State + local share**: $24,048
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 455
### 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**: $84,129
- **Poverty rate**: 7.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 64.9%
- **Unemployment**: 2.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,639
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.7 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 157
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.13 miles (540 W 53RD CLINTON HOUSING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUBURBANS COMMUNITY MHP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.9122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HELL'S KITCHEN** — 0.2 mi away, 1.3% (this school: 4.62%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES** — 0.3 mi away, 2.18% (this school: 4.62%)
- **BEACON HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0.56% (this school: 4.62%)
- **PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING ARTS HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.97% (this school: 4.62%)
- **PS 212 MIDTOWN WEST** — 0.4 mi away, 1.29% (this school: 4.62%)

### graduation rate
- **MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 95% (this school: 93%)
- **BEACON HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 97% (this school: 93%)
- **WEST END SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 99% (this school: 93%)
- **FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 97% (this school: 93%)
- **SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 93%)

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