# JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010002718`
- **School name**: JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCK
- **Location**: JAMAICA, NY 11435
- **Address**: 85-05 144TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 (LEAID `3600100`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.71050, -73.81200
- **Phone**: (718)657-1120
- **Wikidata QID**: Q105021843

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,265
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 91
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 102.2% (1,621 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.6% (148 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.6% (71 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 30.5% (388 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**: 4.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 46.0%
- **Black/African American**: 31.8%
- **Asian**: 11.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.7%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.7% — 264 students
- **English Learners**: 21.4% — 272 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 119 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 90 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,160
- **Federal share**: $3,895
- **State + local share**: $26,265
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,272
### 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**: $90,250
- **Poverty rate**: 10.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,739
- **Foreign-born residents**: 54.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.9 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 29
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.03 miles (97 04 SUTPHIN BLVD)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 117 J KELD/BRIARWOOD SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 7.56% (this school: 11.63%)
- **GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL II** — 0.3 mi away, 2.71% (this school: 11.63%)
- **YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL-QUEENS** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 11.63%)
- **PS 86** — 0.5 mi away, 4.82% (this school: 11.63%)
- **PS 82 HAMMOND** — 0.5 mi away, 5.22% (this school: 11.63%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 117 J KELD/BRIARWOOD SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 44% (this school: 42%)
- **PS 86** — 0.5 mi away, 48% (this school: 42%)
- **MS 358** — 0.7 mi away, 49% (this school: 42%)
- **PS 99 KEW GARDENS** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 42%)
- **PS 54 HILLSIDE** — 0.8 mi away, 45% (this school: 42%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 117 J KELD/BRIARWOOD SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 58% (this school: 53.83%)
- **PS 86** — 0.5 mi away, 63% (this school: 53.83%)
- **MS 358** — 0.7 mi away, 60.6% (this school: 53.83%)
- **PS 99 KEW GARDENS** — 0.8 mi away, 79.5% (this school: 53.83%)
- **PS 54 HILLSIDE** — 0.8 mi away, 59% (this school: 53.83%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-217-robert-a-van-wyck-jamaica
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-217-robert-a-van-wyck-jamaica/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-217-robert-a-van-wyck-jamaica/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-217-robert-a-van-wyck-jamaica/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-217-robert-a-van-wyck-jamaica/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-217-robert-a-van-wyck-jamaica/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-217-robert-a-van-wyck-jamaica/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-217-robert-a-van-wyck-jamaica/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-217-robert-a-van-wyck-jamaica/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-217-robert-a-van-wyck-jamaica/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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