# PS 45 CLARENCE WITHERSPOON

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012302198`
- **School name**: PS 45 CLARENCE WITHERSPOON
- **Location**: SOUTH OZONE PARK, NY 11436
- **Address**: 126-28 150TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 (LEAID `3600123`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.67190, -73.78870
- **Phone**: (718)480-2500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 464
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Comprehensive Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 1
  - EM Growth: 2
  - overall_status: Comprehensive Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 46.2% (140 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.5% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 17.0% (70 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 25.0% (103 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**: 3.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.1%
- **Black/African American**: 9.5%
- **Asian**: 66.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.8% — 65 students
- **English Learners**: 8.0% — 33 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 28 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,800
- **Federal share**: $3,991
- **State + local share**: $26,809
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 412
### 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**: $98,468
- **Poverty rate**: 4.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.6%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,860
- **Foreign-born residents**: 56.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.3 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.90 miles (97 04 SUTPHIN BLVD)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 223 LYNDON B JOHNSON** — 0.2 mi away, 3.03% (this school: 7.52%)
- **AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 4.62% (this school: 7.52%)
- **NEW VISIONS CHTR HS-ADV MA/SCI IV** — 0.4 mi away, 4.69% (this school: 7.52%)
- **PS 123** — 0.6 mi away, 2.57% (this school: 7.52%)
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA** — 0.6 mi away, 1.62% (this school: 7.52%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 123** — 0.6 mi away, 55% (this school: 26%)
- **REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 46% (this school: 26%)
- **PS 96** — 1.0 mi away, 65% (this school: 26%)
- **PS 140 EDWARD K ELLINGTON** — 1.1 mi away, 48% (this school: 26%)
- **PS 155** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 26%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 223 LYNDON B JOHNSON** — 0.2 mi away, 21% (this school: 20%)
- **PS 123** — 0.6 mi away, 71% (this school: 20%)
- **REDWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 52.67% (this school: 20%)
- **PS 96** — 1.0 mi away, 71% (this school: 20%)
- **PS 140 EDWARD K ELLINGTON** — 1.1 mi away, 65% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-45-clarence-witherspoon-south-ozone-park
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-45-clarence-witherspoon-south-ozone-park/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-45-clarence-witherspoon-south-ozone-park/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-45-clarence-witherspoon-south-ozone-park/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-45-clarence-witherspoon-south-ozone-park/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-45-clarence-witherspoon-south-ozone-park/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-45-clarence-witherspoon-south-ozone-park/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-45-clarence-witherspoon-south-ozone-park/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-45-clarence-witherspoon-south-ozone-park/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-45-clarence-witherspoon-south-ozone-park/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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