# LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012302398`
- **School name**: LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691
- **Address**: 180 BEACH 35TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 (LEAID `3600123`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.59470, -73.76700
- **Phone**: (718)327-5828

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 157
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 4
  - 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 76.3% (116 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.1% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 14.1% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 69.1% (103 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**: 1.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 26.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 64.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 98.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 43.0% — 64 students
- **English Learners**: 15.4% — 23 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $43,749
- **Federal share**: $4,550
- **State + local share**: $39,200
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 149
### 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**: $35,529
- **Poverty rate**: 39.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.1%
- **Unemployment**: 11.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,383
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 32.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.9 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.16 miles (VERNAM BARBADOES)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 2.01% (this school: 10.07%)
- **KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREPARATORY ACADEMY VI** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.07%)
- **QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY** — 0.5 mi away, 2.98% (this school: 10.07%)
- **ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 6.91% (this school: 10.07%)
- **WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 9.94% (this school: 10.07%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 43** — 0.3 mi away, 26% (this school: 20%)
- **CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 43% (this school: 20%)
- **GOLDIE MAPLE ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 27% (this school: 20%)
- **MS 53 BRIAN PICCOLO** — 1.1 mi away, 35% (this school: 20%)
- **VILLAGE ACADEMY** — 1.1 mi away, 39% (this school: 20%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 43** — 0.3 mi away, 27.4% (this school: 17%)
- **CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 51.5% (this school: 17%)
- **GOLDIE MAPLE ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 22.75% (this school: 17%)
- **MS 53 BRIAN PICCOLO** — 1.1 mi away, 24.6% (this school: 17%)
- **VILLAGE ACADEMY** — 1.1 mi away, 61.8% (this school: 17%)

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