# LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lisha-kill-middle-school-albany/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/lisha-kill-middle-school-albany

---

## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362721004496`
- **School name**: LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: ALBANY, NY 12205
- **Address**: 68 WATERMAN AVE
- **District**: SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3627210`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.74870, -73.85790
- **Phone**: (518)456-2306

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 640
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 38.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 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 22.1% (135 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.7% (56 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 8.4%
- **Black/African American**: 7.6%
- **Asian**: 8.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 67.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 39.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.2% — 85 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 25 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,776
- **Federal share**: $989
- **State + local share**: $24,787
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 646
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,949,813
- **Federal share**: 11.9%
- **State share**: 27.8%
- **Local share**: 60.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $15,278,308

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $86,500
- **Poverty rate**: 6.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.4%
- **Unemployment**: 7.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,101
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.7 miles (MALTA ROCKET FUEL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.08 miles (BROADWAY ASSEMBLAGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ALBANY CITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-12-19

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.47193 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **VEEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.08%)
- **SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 1.08%)
- **BIRCHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.08%)
- **CAP DIST JUVENILE SECURE DETENTION** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.08%)
- **FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.08%)

### ela proficiency
- **SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 57% (this school: 43%)
- **BIRCHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 63% (this school: 43%)
- **PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 45% (this school: 43%)
- **ROSENDALE SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 71% (this school: 43%)
- **GUILDERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 59% (this school: 43%)

### math proficiency
- **BIRCHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 79% (this school: 73.33%)
- **ROSENDALE SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 77% (this school: 73.33%)
- **GUILDERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 74% (this school: 73.33%)
- **FARNSWORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 77.33% (this school: 73.33%)
- **VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 83% (this school: 73.33%)

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

---
*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.*

*Canonical cross-domain architecture: WhatSchool.ai · Spill.org · CourseMap.org · WhatCareer.net*