# PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007702187`
- **School name**: PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10002
- **Address**: 71 HESTER ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (LEAID `3600077`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.71610, -73.99090
- **Phone**: (212)226-8410

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 476
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 45
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 66.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 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 7.6% (41 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.8% (40 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**: 7.6%
- **Black/African American**: 82.6%
- **Asian**: 1.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 67.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.1% — 110 students
- **English Learners**: 49.2% — 225 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 40 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $39,797
- **Federal share**: $5,388
- **State + local share**: $34,409
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 457
### 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)
- **Poverty rate**: 10.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.9%
- **Unemployment**: 11.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,340
- **Foreign-born residents**: 53.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.4 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 164
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.36 miles (VERNAM BARBADOES BASINS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUBURBANS COMMUNITY MHP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.65041 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.44%)
- **NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.44%)
- **MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.44%)
- **GIRLS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEW YORK** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.44%)
- **DOCK STREET SCHOOL FOR STEAM STUDIES** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.44%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 0.3 mi away, 89% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 184 SHUANG WEN** — 0.4 mi away, 84% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO** — 0.4 mi away, 69% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 126 JACOB AUGUST RIIS** — 0.5 mi away, 73% (this school: 64%)
- **SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 85% (this school: 64%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 0.3 mi away, 94% (this school: 79%)
- **PS 184 SHUANG WEN** — 0.4 mi away, 95% (this school: 79%)
- **PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO** — 0.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 79%)
- **PS 126 JACOB AUGUST RIIS** — 0.5 mi away, 85% (this school: 79%)
- **SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 87% (this school: 79%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-42-benjamin-altman-new-york
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-42-benjamin-altman-new-york/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-42-benjamin-altman-new-york/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-42-benjamin-altman-new-york/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-42-benjamin-altman-new-york/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-42-benjamin-altman-new-york/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-42-benjamin-altman-new-york/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-42-benjamin-altman-new-york/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-42-benjamin-altman-new-york/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-42-benjamin-altman-new-york/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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