# PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010206186`
- **School name**: PS 280 HOME OF THE LIONHEARTS
- **Location**: JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY 11372
- **Address**: 34-20 94TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 (LEAID `3600102`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.75331, -73.87383
- **Phone**: (718)424-9031

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 447
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - 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 19.5% (105 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.2% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.0% (95 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**: 89.5%
- **Black/African American**: 7.8%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.8% — 85 students
- **English Learners**: 54.4% — 246 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 53 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,006
- **Federal share**: $5,233
- **State + local share**: $23,773
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 452
### 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**: $71,818
- **Poverty rate**: 19.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,838
- **Foreign-born residents**: 64.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.8 miles (MEEKER AVENUE PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 134
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.71 miles (104 15 ROOSEVELT AVE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **IVAN LAFAYETTE EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (THE)** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.21%)
- **IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG** — 0.3 mi away, 1.47% (this school: 2.21%)
- **PS 92 HARRY T STEWART SR** — 0.3 mi away, 0.47% (this school: 2.21%)
- **PS 222-FIRE FIGHTER CHRISTOPHER A SANTORA SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.21%)
- **PS 212** — 0.6 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 2.21%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 149 CHRISTA MCAULIFFE** — 0.1 mi away, 33% (this school: 27%)
- **IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG** — 0.3 mi away, 72% (this school: 27%)
- **PS 92 HARRY T STEWART SR** — 0.3 mi away, 33% (this school: 27%)
- **PS 148** — 0.4 mi away, 28% (this school: 27%)
- **PS 212** — 0.6 mi away, 54% (this school: 27%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 149 CHRISTA MCAULIFFE** — 0.1 mi away, 50% (this school: 45%)
- **IS 227 LOUIS ARMSTRONG** — 0.3 mi away, 85.67% (this school: 45%)
- **PIONEER ACADEMY** — 0.5 mi away, 46% (this school: 45%)
- **PS 212** — 0.6 mi away, 70% (this school: 45%)
- **RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 64.4% (this school: 45%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-280-home-of-the-lionhearts-jackson-heights
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-280-home-of-the-lionhearts-jackson-heights/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-280-home-of-the-lionhearts-jackson-heights/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-280-home-of-the-lionhearts-jackson-heights/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-280-home-of-the-lionhearts-jackson-heights/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-280-home-of-the-lionhearts-jackson-heights/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-280-home-of-the-lionhearts-jackson-heights/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-280-home-of-the-lionhearts-jackson-heights/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-280-home-of-the-lionhearts-jackson-heights/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-280-home-of-the-lionhearts-jackson-heights/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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