# PS 186 CASTLEWOOD

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009902642`
- **School name**: PS 186 CASTLEWOOD
- **Location**: BELLEROSE, NY 11426
- **Address**: 252-12 72ND AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #26 (LEAID `3600099`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.74970, -73.72140
- **Phone**: (718)831-4021

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 319
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 6.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 48.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 2
  - 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 5.9% (22 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.2% (56 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**: 2.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 19.5%
- **Black/African American**: 39.3%
- **Asian**: 10.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 26.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 48.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 30.1% — 104 students
- **English Learners**: 2.0% — 7 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 19 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $54,899
- **Federal share**: $5,060
- **State + local share**: $49,839
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 346
### 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**: $113,622
- **Poverty rate**: 11.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 49.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,007
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.4 miles (STANTON CLEANERS AREA GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.77 miles (246TH STREET)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.82155 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 224** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.58%)
- **NEW YORK CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.58%)
- **PS 23 AT QUEENS CHILDREN CENTER** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.58%)
- **PS/IS 266** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.58%)
- **PS Q811** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.58%)

### ela proficiency
- **IRWIN ALTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL 172** — 0.7 mi away, 67% (this school: 66%)
- **JHS 67 LOUIS PASTEUR** — 1.1 mi away, 81% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 133** — 1.2 mi away, 69% (this school: 66%)
- **GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 84% (this school: 66%)
- **LAKEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 83% (this school: 66%)

### math proficiency
- **PS/IS 266** — 0.5 mi away, 81% (this school: 75%)
- **IRWIN ALTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL 172** — 0.7 mi away, 79% (this school: 75%)
- **JHS 67 LOUIS PASTEUR** — 1.1 mi away, 92.17% (this school: 75%)
- **GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 94.33% (this school: 75%)
- **LAKEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 98% (this school: 75%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-186-castlewood-bellerose
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-186-castlewood-bellerose/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-186-castlewood-bellerose/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-186-castlewood-bellerose/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-186-castlewood-bellerose/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-186-castlewood-bellerose/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-186-castlewood-bellerose/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-186-castlewood-bellerose/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-186-castlewood-bellerose/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-186-castlewood-bellerose/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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