# PS 178 DR SELMAN WAKSMAN

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008800158`
- **School name**: PS 178 DR SELMAN WAKSMAN
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10475
- **Address**: 850 BAYCHESTER AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11 (LEAID `3600088`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.87515, -73.83310
- **Phone**: (718)904-5570

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 334
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 75.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Growth: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core 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 29.1% (102 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.7% (35 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 11.3% (37 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 23.9% (78 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**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 31.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 63.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.4%
- **Two or more races**: 1.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 28.8% — 94 students
- **English Learners**: 6.4% — 21 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 35 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $39,314
- **Federal share**: $6,894
- **State + local share**: $32,420
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 326
### 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**: $63,924
- **Poverty rate**: 14.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.4%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,367
- **Foreign-born residents**: 32.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.2 miles (STANTON CLEANERS AREA GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 40
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.66 miles (1824 ALLERTON AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KINGSTON CENTER AN0
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 11
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-29

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.43167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MS 596** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.74%)
- **PS 176** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.74%)
- **IS 181 PABLO CASALS** — 0.1 mi away, 5.41% (this school: 10.74%)
- **BRONX HEALTH SCIENCES HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 2.25% (this school: 10.74%)
- **PS 153 HELEN KELLER** — 0.1 mi away, 1.73% (this school: 10.74%)

### ela proficiency
- **IS 181 PABLO CASALS** — 0.1 mi away, 59% (this school: 33%)
- **PS 153 HELEN KELLER** — 0.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 33%)
- **MS 180 DR DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS** — 0.1 mi away, 47% (this school: 33%)
- **BAYCHESTER ACADEMY** — 0.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 33%)
- **JHS 144 MICHELANGELO** — 0.8 mi away, 45% (this school: 33%)

### math proficiency
- **IS 181 PABLO CASALS** — 0.1 mi away, 61.6% (this school: 44%)
- **PS 153 HELEN KELLER** — 0.1 mi away, 53% (this school: 44%)
- **BAYCHESTER ACADEMY** — 0.5 mi away, 68% (this school: 44%)
- **JHS 144 MICHELANGELO** — 0.8 mi away, 47.2% (this school: 44%)
- **EQUALITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 73.8% (this school: 44%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-178-dr-selman-waksman-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-178-dr-selman-waksman-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-178-dr-selman-waksman-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-178-dr-selman-waksman-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-178-dr-selman-waksman-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-178-dr-selman-waksman-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-178-dr-selman-waksman-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-178-dr-selman-waksman-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-178-dr-selman-waksman-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-178-dr-selman-waksman-bronx/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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