# PS 21 MARGARET EMERY-ELM PARK

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010302110`
- **School name**: PS 21 MARGARET EMERY-ELM PARK
- **Location**: STATEN ISLAND, NY 10302
- **Address**: 168 HOOKER PL
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #31 (LEAID `3600103`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.63120, -74.14470
- **Phone**: (718)816-3300

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 380
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - 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 60.5% (242 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.8% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.0% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 31.8% (125 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**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 58.5%
- **Black/African American**: 1.2%
- **Asian**: 26.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 2.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 32.1% — 126 students
- **English Learners**: 15.3% — 60 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 45 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 39 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $37,934
- **Federal share**: $5,046
- **State + local share**: $32,888
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 393
### 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**: $83,009
- **Poverty rate**: 20.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.9%
- **Unemployment**: 12.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,664
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.7 miles (CHEMICAL CONTROL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 79
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.66 miles (VAN NAME VAN PELT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUNSHINE ACRES MHC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.91525 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 0.37% (this school: 2.8%)
- **PS 19 CURTIS SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.9 mi away, 1.15% (this school: 2.8%)
- **PS 30 WESTERLEIGH** — 1.1 mi away, 1.32% (this school: 2.8%)
- **STATEN ISLAND SCHOOL OF CIVIC LEADERSHIP** — 1.3 mi away, 2.03% (this school: 2.8%)
- **PS 60 ALICE AUSTEN** — 1.7 mi away, 0.48% (this school: 2.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 30 WESTERLEIGH** — 1.1 mi away, 72% (this school: 60%)
- **PS 54 CHARLES W LENG** — 2.0 mi away, 62% (this school: 60%)
- **PS 48 WILLIAM G WILCOX** — 3.4 mi away, 64% (this school: 60%)
- **NAPLES STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 60%)
- **PS 23 RICHMONDTOWN** — 4.2 mi away, 73% (this school: 60%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 30 WESTERLEIGH** — 1.1 mi away, 82% (this school: 65%)
- **PS 54 CHARLES W LENG** — 2.0 mi away, 71% (this school: 65%)
- **IS 72 ROCCO LAURIE** — 2.8 mi away, 68.8% (this school: 65%)
- **PS 48 WILLIAM G WILCOX** — 3.4 mi away, 78.6% (this school: 65%)
- **SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 65%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-21-margaret-emery-elm-park-staten-island
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-21-margaret-emery-elm-park-staten-island/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-21-margaret-emery-elm-park-staten-island/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-21-margaret-emery-elm-park-staten-island/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-21-margaret-emery-elm-park-staten-island/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-21-margaret-emery-elm-park-staten-island/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-21-margaret-emery-elm-park-staten-island/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-21-margaret-emery-elm-park-staten-island/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-21-margaret-emery-elm-park-staten-island/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-21-margaret-emery-elm-park-staten-island/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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