# PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009702434`
- **School name**: PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11237
- **Address**: 515 KNICKERBOCKER AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32 (LEAID `3600097`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.69810, -73.91660
- **Phone**: (718)821-4623

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 296
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - 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 34.4% (110 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.2% (34 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.5% (25 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 39.5% (132 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**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 92.5%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 3.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 85.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 30.8% — 103 students
- **English Learners**: 30.8% — 103 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 42 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,665
- **Federal share**: $7,790
- **State + local share**: $27,875
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 334
### 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**: $44,975
- **Poverty rate**: 40.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.4%
- **Unemployment**: 21.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,378
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.9 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 149
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.73 miles (908 MADISON STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CORNER STONE COURT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.36016 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLER** — 0.1 mi away, 2.82% (this school: 10.18%)
- **ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 2.83% (this school: 10.18%)
- **ALL CITY LEADERSHIP SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 1.39% (this school: 10.18%)
- **BUSHWICK COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 8.57% (this school: 10.18%)
- **MATH ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 2.29% (this school: 10.18%)

### ela proficiency
- **JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLER** — 0.1 mi away, 47% (this school: 25%)
- **PS 377 ALEJANDRINA B DE GAUTIER** — 0.3 mi away, 39% (this school: 25%)
- **PS 81 JEAN PAUL RICHTER** — 0.5 mi away, 27% (this school: 25%)
- **BUSHWICK ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 48% (this school: 25%)
- **PS 151 LYNDON B JOHNSON** — 0.5 mi away, 33% (this school: 25%)

### math proficiency
- **JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLER** — 0.1 mi away, 52.6% (this school: 34%)
- **PS 81 JEAN PAUL RICHTER** — 0.5 mi away, 43% (this school: 34%)
- **BUSHWICK ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 53% (this school: 34%)
- **PS 123 SUYDAM** — 0.5 mi away, 35% (this school: 34%)
- **PS 151 LYNDON B JOHNSON** — 0.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 34%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-116-elizabeth-l-farrell-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-116-elizabeth-l-farrell-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-116-elizabeth-l-farrell-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-116-elizabeth-l-farrell-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-116-elizabeth-l-farrell-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-116-elizabeth-l-farrell-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-116-elizabeth-l-farrell-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-116-elizabeth-l-farrell-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-116-elizabeth-l-farrell-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-116-elizabeth-l-farrell-brooklyn/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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