# PS 197 OCEAN SCHOOL (THE)

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012302671`
- **School name**: PS 197 OCEAN SCHOOL (THE)
- **Location**: FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691
- **Address**: 825 HICKSVILLE RD
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 (LEAID `3600123`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.59990, -73.74430
- **Phone**: (718)327-1083

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 425
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.9%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 36.9% (164 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.0% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.2% (25 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 55.6% (224 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**: 2.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 48.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 45.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 28.5% — 115 students
- **English Learners**: 26.3% — 106 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 38 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 34 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### 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**: $52,716
- **Poverty rate**: 17.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 50.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,072
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.8 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.39 miles (VERNAM BARBADOES)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FAR ROCKAWAY** — 0.4 mi away, 2.8% (this school: 3.97%)
- **PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.97%)
- **LAWRENCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT BROADWAY CAMPUS** — 0.8 mi away, 1.03% (this school: 3.97%)
- **LAWRENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL AT BROADWAY CAMPUS** — 0.8 mi away, 0.9% (this school: 3.97%)
- **KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREPARATORY ACADEMY VI** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.97%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-197-ocean-school-the-far-rockaway
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-197-ocean-school-the-far-rockaway/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-197-ocean-school-the-far-rockaway/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-197-ocean-school-the-far-rockaway/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-197-ocean-school-the-far-rockaway/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-197-ocean-school-the-far-rockaway/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-197-ocean-school-the-far-rockaway/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-197-ocean-school-the-far-rockaway/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-197-ocean-school-the-far-rockaway/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-197-ocean-school-the-far-rockaway/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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