# PS 129 JOHN H FINLEY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008102475`
- **School name**: PS 129 JOHN H FINLEY
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10027
- **Address**: 425 W 130TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5 (LEAID `3600081`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.81496, -73.95212
- **Phone**: (212)690-5932

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 229
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - 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 75.3% (235 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.9% (63 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 30.7% (67 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 96.8% (211 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**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 44.7%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 49.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 50.0% — 109 students
- **English Learners**: 17.0% — 37 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 35 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $51,689
- **Federal share**: $12,810
- **State + local share**: $38,878
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 218
### 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)
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.0%
- **Unemployment**: 34.1%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.1 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 110
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.41 miles (WEST 135TH STREET GARBAGE MTS)

### 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**: 1.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SEED HARLEM** — 0.0 mi away, 4.3% (this school: 28.9%)
- **SISULU-WALKER CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM** — 0.1 mi away, 17.95% (this school: 28.9%)
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 6** — 0.1 mi away, 7.29% (this school: 28.9%)
- **URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS** — 0.2 mi away, 15.98% (this school: 28.9%)
- **TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 6.21% (this school: 28.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 53% (this school: 35%)
- **PS 161 PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS** — 0.2 mi away, 37% (this school: 35%)
- **PS 125 RALPH BUNCHE** — 0.3 mi away, 68% (this school: 35%)
- **COLUMBIA SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 82% (this school: 35%)
- **DEMOCRACY PREP HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 36% (this school: 35%)

### math proficiency
- **TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 51% (this school: 30%)
- **PS 161 PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS** — 0.2 mi away, 46.2% (this school: 30%)
- **PS 92 MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE** — 0.3 mi away, 49% (this school: 30%)
- **PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN** — 0.3 mi away, 39% (this school: 30%)
- **PS 125 RALPH BUNCHE** — 0.3 mi away, 74% (this school: 30%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-129-john-h-finley-new-york
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-129-john-h-finley-new-york/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-129-john-h-finley-new-york/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-129-john-h-finley-new-york/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-129-john-h-finley-new-york/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-129-john-h-finley-new-york/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-129-john-h-finley-new-york/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-129-john-h-finley-new-york/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-129-john-h-finley-new-york/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-129-john-h-finley-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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