# PS 126 JACOB AUGUST RIIS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007702468`
- **School name**: PS 126 JACOB AUGUST RIIS
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10038
- **Address**: 80 CATHERINE ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (LEAID `3600077`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.71050, -73.99700
- **Phone**: (212)962-2188

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 575
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 48
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 75.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - 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 10.6% (71 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.8% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 15.7% (89 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**: 17.1%
- **Black/African American**: 64.3%
- **Asian**: 9.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.9% — 141 students
- **English Learners**: 23.1% — 131 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 50 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 32 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,672
- **Federal share**: $5,267
- **State + local share**: $27,405
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 566
### 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**: $23,737
- **Poverty rate**: 46.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.3%
- **Unemployment**: 9.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $439
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 33.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.1 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 163
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.70 miles (VERNAM BARBADOES BASINS)

### 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**: 7.65041 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.41%)
- **PECK SLIP SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.3 mi away, 1.14% (this school: 1.41%)
- **PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN** — 0.5 mi away, 0.44% (this school: 1.41%)
- **DOCK STREET SCHOOL FOR STEAM STUDIES** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.41%)
- **PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO** — 0.6 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 1.41%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 0.3 mi away, 89% (this school: 73%)
- **SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 85% (this school: 73%)
- **PS 184 SHUANG WEN** — 0.6 mi away, 84% (this school: 73%)
- **PS 234 INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 82% (this school: 73%)
- **IS 289** — 1.0 mi away, 78% (this school: 73%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 0.3 mi away, 94% (this school: 85%)
- **SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 87% (this school: 85%)
- **PS 184 SHUANG WEN** — 0.6 mi away, 95% (this school: 85%)
- **PS 234 INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 86% (this school: 85%)
- **BATTERY PARK CITY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 89.6% (this school: 85%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-126-jacob-august-riis-new-york
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-126-jacob-august-riis-new-york/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-126-jacob-august-riis-new-york/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-126-jacob-august-riis-new-york/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-126-jacob-august-riis-new-york/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-126-jacob-august-riis-new-york/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-126-jacob-august-riis-new-york/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-126-jacob-august-riis-new-york/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-126-jacob-august-riis-new-york/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-126-jacob-august-riis-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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