# MS 243 CENTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007803552`
- **School name**: MS 243 CENTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10024
- **Address**: 100 W 84TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 (LEAID `3600078`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.78493, -73.97375
- **Phone**: (212)799-1477
- **Wikidata QID**: Q102123850

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 246
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 21.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 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 1.6% (4 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 5.6% (14 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**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 19.6%
- **Black/African American**: 5.1%
- **Asian**: 14.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 55.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 4.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 22.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.8% — 32 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,667
- **Federal share**: $3,740
- **State + local share**: $22,927
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 251
### 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**: $175,647
- **Poverty rate**: 7.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 87.7%
- **Unemployment**: 2.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,295
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.6 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 152
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.54 miles (540 W 53RD CLINTON HOUSING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUBURBANS COMMUNITY MHP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.70496 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON** — 0.0 mi away, 83% (this school: 80%)
- **PS 87 WILLIAM SHERMAN** — 0.3 mi away, 88% (this school: 80%)
- **SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 80%)
- **PS 6 LILLIE D BLAKE** — 0.9 mi away, 90% (this school: 80%)
- **JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON** — 1.2 mi away, 85% (this school: 80%)

### math proficiency
- **SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 90.8%)
- **PS 6 LILLIE D BLAKE** — 0.9 mi away, 91% (this school: 90.8%)
- **PS 77 LOWER LAB SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 90.8%)
- **PS 171 PATRICK HENRY** — 1.3 mi away, 92% (this school: 90.8%)
- **PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON** — 1.7 mi away, 92% (this school: 90.8%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-243-center-school-new-york
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-243-center-school-new-york/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-243-center-school-new-york/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-243-center-school-new-york/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-243-center-school-new-york/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-243-center-school-new-york/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-243-center-school-new-york/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-243-center-school-new-york/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-243-center-school-new-york/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-243-center-school-new-york/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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