# PS 279 CAPT MANUEL RIVERA JR

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008700183`
- **School name**: PS 279 CAPT MANUEL RIVERA JR
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10453
- **Address**: 2100 WALTON AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 (LEAID `3600087`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.85480, -73.90500
- **Phone**: (718)584-6004

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 638
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 59
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - 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 17.6% (156 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.0% (56 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 15.2% (106 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 34.3% (240 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**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 79.2%
- **Black/African American**: 3.1%
- **Asian**: 15.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 30.3% — 212 students
- **English Learners**: 46.8% — 327 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 69 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 59 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,921
- **Federal share**: $5,759
- **State + local share**: $27,162
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 699
### 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**: $29,527
- **Poverty rate**: 36.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.8%
- **Unemployment**: 22.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,494
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 49.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.6 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 52
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.47 miles (2264 2274 LORING PLACE NORTH)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KINGSTON CENTER AN0
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 11
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-29

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.43167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CRESTON ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 6.55% (this school: 8.01%)
- **KIPP FREEDOM CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 6.74% (this school: 8.01%)
- **CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE** — 0.4 mi away, 3.19% (this school: 8.01%)
- **PS 163 ARTHUR A SCHOMBERG** — 0.4 mi away, 5.28% (this school: 8.01%)
- **PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING** — 0.4 mi away, 1.78% (this school: 8.01%)

### ela proficiency
- **KIPP FREEDOM CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 51% (this school: 42%)
- **PS 204 MORRIS HEIGHTS** — 0.6 mi away, 56% (this school: 42%)
- **JHS 118 WILLIAM W NILES** — 0.8 mi away, 48% (this school: 42%)
- **JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY** — 0.8 mi away, 51% (this school: 42%)
- **PS/MS 4 CROTONA PARK WEST** — 1.0 mi away, 83% (this school: 42%)

### math proficiency
- **KIPP FREEDOM CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 76.2% (this school: 45.5%)
- **PS 291** — 0.4 mi away, 57% (this school: 45.5%)
- **MS 390** — 0.4 mi away, 48.8% (this school: 45.5%)
- **BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 65% (this school: 45.5%)
- **BRILLA PAX CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 63% (this school: 45.5%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-279-capt-manuel-rivera-jr-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-279-capt-manuel-rivera-jr-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-279-capt-manuel-rivera-jr-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-279-capt-manuel-rivera-jr-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-279-capt-manuel-rivera-jr-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-279-capt-manuel-rivera-jr-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-279-capt-manuel-rivera-jr-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-279-capt-manuel-rivera-jr-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-279-capt-manuel-rivera-jr-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-279-capt-manuel-rivera-jr-bronx/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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