# PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015302854`
- **School name**: PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11229
- **Address**: 2529 GERRITSEN AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22 (LEAID `3600153`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.59610, -73.92820
- **Phone**: (718)743-6689

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 293
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 60.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Growth: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 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 13.7% (50 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 23.1% (67 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**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.0%
- **Black/African American**: 18.7%
- **Asian**: 3.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 61.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 54.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 30.3% — 88 students
- **English Learners**: 10.0% — 29 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 39 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $36,674
- **Federal share**: $4,821
- **State + local share**: $31,854
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 291
### 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)

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.7 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.70 miles (2975 AVENUE U)

### 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**: 5.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD** — 1.3 mi away, 61% (this school: 60%)
- **PS 222 KATHERINE R SNYDER** — 1.3 mi away, 67% (this school: 60%)
- **PS 195 MANHATTAN BEACH** — 1.4 mi away, 73% (this school: 60%)
- **PS 236 MILL BASIN** — 1.6 mi away, 69% (this school: 60%)
- **IS 98 BAY ACADEMY** — 1.6 mi away, 85% (this school: 60%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY** — 1.2 mi away, 72.4% (this school: 65%)
- **PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD** — 1.3 mi away, 78% (this school: 65%)
- **PS 222 KATHERINE R SNYDER** — 1.3 mi away, 75% (this school: 65%)
- **PS 195 MANHATTAN BEACH** — 1.4 mi away, 85% (this school: 65%)
- **JHS 234 ARTHUR W CUNNINGHAM** — 1.5 mi away, 74% (this school: 65%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-277-gerritsen-beach-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-277-gerritsen-beach-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-277-gerritsen-beach-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-277-gerritsen-beach-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-277-gerritsen-beach-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-277-gerritsen-beach-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-277-gerritsen-beach-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-277-gerritsen-beach-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-277-gerritsen-beach-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-277-gerritsen-beach-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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