# PS 131

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009202482`
- **School name**: PS 131
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11219
- **Address**: 4305 FT HAMILTON PKWY
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 (LEAID `3600092`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.64080, -73.99340
- **Phone**: (718)431-1960

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 493
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 4
  - 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 31.6% (237 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.3% (33 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.1% (27 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 26.9% (142 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**: 1.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 53.0%
- **Black/African American**: 33.8%
- **Asian**: 1.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 8.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 2.7%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 33.2% — 175 students
- **English Learners**: 70.0% — 369 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 85 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,611
- **Federal share**: $4,991
- **State + local share**: $27,620
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 527
### 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**: $53,084
- **Poverty rate**: 24.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.9%
- **Unemployment**: 7.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,445
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.8 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 58
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.29 miles (1194 PROSPECT AVENUE)

### 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**: 7.19846 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 160 WILLIAM T SAMPSON** — 0.4 mi away, 0.42% (this school: 6.26%)
- **JHS 220 JOHN J PERSHING** — 0.4 mi away, 3.96% (this school: 6.26%)
- **SCHOOL OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION (THE)** — 0.4 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 6.26%)
- **PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY** — 0.5 mi away, 1.61% (this school: 6.26%)
- **PS 169 SUNSET PARK** — 0.6 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 6.26%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 160 WILLIAM T SAMPSON** — 0.4 mi away, 60% (this school: 50%)
- **JHS 220 JOHN J PERSHING** — 0.4 mi away, 59% (this school: 50%)
- **PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY** — 0.5 mi away, 58% (this school: 50%)
- **PS 230 DORIS L COHEN** — 0.8 mi away, 55% (this school: 50%)
- **PS 69 VINCENT D GRIPPO SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 56% (this school: 50%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 160 WILLIAM T SAMPSON** — 0.4 mi away, 76% (this school: 62%)
- **JHS 220 JOHN J PERSHING** — 0.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 62%)
- **PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY** — 0.5 mi away, 71% (this school: 62%)
- **PS 169 SUNSET PARK** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 62%)
- **PS 69 VINCENT D GRIPPO SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 62%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-131-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-131-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-131-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-131-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-131-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-131-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-131-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-131-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-131-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-131-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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