# PS 279 HERMAN SCHREIBER

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009602791`
- **School name**: PS 279 HERMAN SCHREIBER
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11236
- **Address**: 1070 E 104TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 (LEAID `3600096`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.64415, -73.89256
- **Phone**: (718)444-4316

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 276
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 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 55.4% (159 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.4% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 11.4% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 62.5% (170 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**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 7.6%
- **Black/African American**: 3.1%
- **Asian**: 83.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 38.6% — 105 students
- **English Learners**: 31.6% — 86 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $34,417
- **Federal share**: $6,586
- **State + local share**: $27,831
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 272
### 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**: $98,750
- **Poverty rate**: 7.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.2%
- **Unemployment**: 4.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,841
- **Foreign-born residents**: 47.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.4 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 43
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.12 miles (WOLFF ALPORT IRVING AVENUE RIGHT OF WAY)

### 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**: 8.36016 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **IS 211 JOHN WILSON** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.41%)
- **SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.2 mi away, 2.46% (this school: 4.41%)
- **CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 4.41%)
- **PS 115 DANIEL MUCATEL SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 3.35% (this school: 4.41%)
- **EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 3.93% (this school: 4.41%)

### ela proficiency
- **IS 211 JOHN WILSON** — 0.2 mi away, 50% (this school: 39%)
- **LENOX ACADEMY** — 0.3 mi away, 79% (this school: 39%)
- **CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 64% (this school: 39%)
- **PS 115 DANIEL MUCATEL SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 48% (this school: 39%)
- **PS 66** — 0.8 mi away, 42% (this school: 39%)

### math proficiency
- **LENOX ACADEMY** — 0.3 mi away, 71.6% (this school: 63%)
- **COLLEGIATE ACADEMY-MATH-PERSONAL AWA** — 1.0 mi away, 91.5% (this school: 63%)
- **PS 276 LOUIS MARSHALL** — 1.1 mi away, 72% (this school: 63%)
- **IMAGINE ME LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 65.4% (this school: 63%)
- **PS 190 SHEFFIELD** — 1.3 mi away, 74% (this school: 63%)

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