# PS 159

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009902571`
- **School name**: PS 159
- **Location**: BAYSIDE, NY 11361
- **Address**: 205-01 33RD AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 (LEAID `3600099`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.76974, -73.78382
- **Phone**: (718)423-8553

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 504
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - 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 6.0% (39 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.9% (48 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**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.6%
- **Black/African American**: 63.7%
- **Asian**: 0.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 19.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.9% — 81 students
- **English Learners**: 20.3% — 110 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 29 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,532
- **Federal share**: $4,829
- **State + local share**: $25,703
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 542
### 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**: $93,456
- **Poverty rate**: 6.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.5%
- **Unemployment**: 8.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,878
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.7 miles (STANTON CLEANERS AREA GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 19
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.41 miles (33 10 154TH STREET)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.82155 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 41 CROCHERON** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.37%)
- **PS 130** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.37%)
- **PS 169 BAY TERRACE** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.37%)
- **BELL ACADEMY** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.37%)
- **PS 31 BAYSIDE** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.37%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 41 CROCHERON** — 0.7 mi away, 82% (this school: 74%)
- **BELL ACADEMY** — 0.9 mi away, 85% (this school: 74%)
- **MS 158 MARIE CURIE** — 1.1 mi away, 76% (this school: 74%)
- **PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 74%)
- **JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 74%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 41 CROCHERON** — 0.7 mi away, 90% (this school: 81%)
- **PS 130** — 0.7 mi away, 91% (this school: 81%)
- **BELL ACADEMY** — 0.9 mi away, 89.8% (this school: 81%)
- **MS 158 MARIE CURIE** — 1.1 mi away, 84% (this school: 81%)
- **PS 209 CLEARVIEW GARDENS** — 1.1 mi away, 83% (this school: 81%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-bayside
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-bayside/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-bayside/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-bayside/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-bayside/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-bayside/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-bayside/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-bayside/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-bayside/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-159-bayside/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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