# PS 156 LAURELTON

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010102563`
- **School name**: PS 156 LAURELTON
- **Location**: SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, NY 11413
- **Address**: 229-02 137TH AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 (LEAID `3600101`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.67270, -73.74310
- **Phone**: (718)528-9173

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 172
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM Growth: 2
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 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 46.8% (73 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.4% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.2% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 65.7% (109 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**: 2.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 9.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 83.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 1.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.9% — 33 students
- **English Learners**: 5.4% — 9 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $39,109
- **Federal share**: $5,883
- **State + local share**: $33,227
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 167
### 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**: $128,750
- **Poverty rate**: 2.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 34.6%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,885
- **Foreign-born residents**: 46.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.3 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.04 miles (113 50 FARMERS BOULEVARD)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 3.62% (this school: 5.42%)
- **GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.4 mi away, 2.58% (this school: 5.42%)
- **PS 38 ROSEDALE** — 0.5 mi away, 2.59% (this school: 5.42%)
- **MERRICK ACADEMY-QUEENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 4.03% (this school: 5.42%)
- **PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE** — 0.7 mi away, 3.32% (this school: 5.42%)

### ela proficiency
- **QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 47% (this school: 43%)
- **PS 38 ROSEDALE** — 0.5 mi away, 64% (this school: 43%)
- **PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE** — 0.7 mi away, 67% (this school: 43%)
- **IS 59 SPRINGFIELD GARDENS** — 0.8 mi away, 44% (this school: 43%)
- **PS 251** — 1.0 mi away, 60% (this school: 43%)

### math proficiency
- **QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 41.4% (this school: 41%)
- **PS 38 ROSEDALE** — 0.5 mi away, 68% (this school: 41%)
- **PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE** — 0.7 mi away, 69% (this school: 41%)
- **IS 59 SPRINGFIELD GARDENS** — 0.8 mi away, 42.5% (this school: 41%)
- **PS 251** — 1.0 mi away, 65% (this school: 41%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-156-laurelton-springfield-gardens
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-156-laurelton-springfield-gardens/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-156-laurelton-springfield-gardens/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-156-laurelton-springfield-gardens/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-156-laurelton-springfield-gardens/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-156-laurelton-springfield-gardens/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-156-laurelton-springfield-gardens/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-156-laurelton-springfield-gardens/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-156-laurelton-springfield-gardens/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-156-laurelton-springfield-gardens/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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