# PS 179 KENSINGTON

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015102625`
- **School name**: PS 179 KENSINGTON
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11218
- **Address**: 202 AVE C
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 (LEAID `3600151`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.64030, -73.97730
- **Phone**: (718)438-4010

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 660
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 48
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - 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 39.0% (299 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.5% (37 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.3% (29 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 32.6% (219 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**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 22.1%
- **Black/African American**: 58.5%
- **Asian**: 3.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 14.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.7% — 146 students
- **English Learners**: 61.0% — 410 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 58 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 33 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,545
- **Federal share**: $4,796
- **State + local share**: $26,749
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 673
### 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**: $74,012
- **Poverty rate**: 21.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 59.5%
- **Unemployment**: 8.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,998
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.9 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 60
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.84 miles (1075 1079 CONEY ISLAND 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**: 2.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MS 890** — 0.4 mi away, 2.55% (this school: 5.51%)
- **PS 889** — 0.5 mi away, 1.23% (this school: 5.51%)
- **JHS 223 MONTAUK (THE)** — 0.5 mi away, 4.28% (this school: 5.51%)
- **URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.51%)
- **PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY** — 0.5 mi away, 1.61% (this school: 5.51%)

### ela proficiency
- **JHS 62 DITMAS** — 0.3 mi away, 57% (this school: 37%)
- **PS 230 DORIS L COHEN** — 0.4 mi away, 55% (this school: 37%)
- **MS 890** — 0.4 mi away, 58% (this school: 37%)
- **PS 889** — 0.5 mi away, 50% (this school: 37%)
- **PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY** — 0.5 mi away, 58% (this school: 37%)

### math proficiency
- **JHS 62 DITMAS** — 0.3 mi away, 63.6% (this school: 50%)
- **PS 230 DORIS L COHEN** — 0.4 mi away, 62% (this school: 50%)
- **MS 890** — 0.4 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 50%)
- **PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY** — 0.5 mi away, 71% (this school: 50%)
- **MS 839** — 0.6 mi away, 62% (this school: 50%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-179-kensington-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-179-kensington-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-179-kensington-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-179-kensington-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-179-kensington-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-179-kensington-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-179-kensington-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-179-kensington-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-179-kensington-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-179-kensington-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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