# MERRICK ACADEMY-QUEENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360005504777`
- **School name**: MERRICK ACADEMY-QUEENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, NY 11413
- **Address**: 136-25 218TH ST
- **District**: MERRICK ACADEMY-QUEENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3600055`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 40.67629, -73.75307
- **Phone**: (718)479-3753

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 732
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.6%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 39.3% (227 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.0% (24 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 8.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 87.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.9% — 83 students
- **English Learners**: 1.5% — 9 students

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,078,125

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $95,476
- **Poverty rate**: 6.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,894
- **Foreign-born residents**: 42.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.9 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.60 miles (113 50 FARMERS BOULEVARD)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS** — 0.4 mi away, 1.17% (this school: 4.03%)
- **PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE** — 0.4 mi away, 3.32% (this school: 4.03%)
- **QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 3.62% (this school: 4.03%)
- **EXCELSIOR PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 3.53% (this school: 4.03%)
- **PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS:  A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 3.65% (this school: 4.03%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/merrick-academy-queens-public-charter-school-springfield-gardens
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/merrick-academy-queens-public-charter-school-springfield-gardens/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/merrick-academy-queens-public-charter-school-springfield-gardens/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/merrick-academy-queens-public-charter-school-springfield-gardens/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/merrick-academy-queens-public-charter-school-springfield-gardens/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/merrick-academy-queens-public-charter-school-springfield-gardens/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/merrick-academy-queens-public-charter-school-springfield-gardens/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/merrick-academy-queens-public-charter-school-springfield-gardens/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/merrick-academy-queens-public-charter-school-springfield-gardens/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/merrick-academy-queens-public-charter-school-springfield-gardens/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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