# IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010301973`
- **School name**: IS 61 WILLIAM A MORRIS
- **Location**: STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301
- **Address**: 445 CASTLETON AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 (LEAID `3600103`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.63450, -74.09760
- **Phone**: (718)727-8481

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 871
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 82
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Grad Rate: s
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Core Performance: s
  - EM Growth: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - HS Weight Performance: s
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM ELP: 3
  - HS CCCR: s
  - HS Attendance: s
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - 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 66.0% (660 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.8% (54 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.8% (54 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 42.4% (393 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**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 49.3%
- **Black/African American**: 3.3%
- **Asian**: 32.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 11.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 31.8% — 294 students
- **English Learners**: 12.0% — 111 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 162 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 93 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $33,596
- **Federal share**: $4,336
- **State + local share**: $29,259
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 926
### 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**: $104,602
- **Poverty rate**: 6.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 56.6%
- **Unemployment**: 0.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,460
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.1 miles (CHEMICAL CONTROL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 45
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.96 miles (SAMPSON TANK CLEANING FACILITY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUNSHINE ACRES MHC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.91525 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 373** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.83%)
- **PS 45 JOHN TYLER** — 0.7 mi away, 2.12% (this school: 5.83%)
- **PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE)** — 1.0 mi away, 0.84% (this school: 5.83%)
- **RALPH R MCKEE CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 2.28% (this school: 5.83%)
- **CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 5.32% (this school: 5.83%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 45 JOHN TYLER** — 0.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 37%)
- **IS 27 ANNING S PRALL** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 37%)
- **PS 29 BARDWELL** — 1.7 mi away, 56% (this school: 37%)
- **PS 13 M L LINDEMEYER** — 2.1 mi away, 56% (this school: 37%)
- **PS 30 WESTERLEIGH** — 2.2 mi away, 72% (this school: 37%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 45 JOHN TYLER** — 0.7 mi away, 56% (this school: 40.8%)
- **IS 27 ANNING S PRALL** — 1.1 mi away, 45.8% (this school: 40.8%)
- **PS 29 BARDWELL** — 1.7 mi away, 62% (this school: 40.8%)
- **PS 13 M L LINDEMEYER** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 40.8%)
- **PS 30 WESTERLEIGH** — 2.2 mi away, 82% (this school: 40.8%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-61-william-a-morris-staten-island
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-61-william-a-morris-staten-island/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-61-william-a-morris-staten-island/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-61-william-a-morris-staten-island/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-61-william-a-morris-staten-island/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-61-william-a-morris-staten-island/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-61-william-a-morris-staten-island/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-61-william-a-morris-staten-island/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-61-william-a-morris-staten-island/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-61-william-a-morris-staten-island/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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