# PS 53 BASHEER QUISIM

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008602232`
- **School name**: PS 53 BASHEER QUISIM
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10456
- **Address**: 360 E 168TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 (LEAID `3600086`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.83278, -73.91187
- **Phone**: (718)681-7276

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 600
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 56
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 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 28.8% (241 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.0% (91 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 44.1% (267 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 83.3% (504 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**: 67.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 29.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 28.6% — 173 students
- **English Learners**: 55.5% — 336 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 58 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 47 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,834
- **Federal share**: $6,979
- **State + local share**: $28,855
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 605
### 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**: 32.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.0%
- **Unemployment**: 10.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $997
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 60.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.5 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 61
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.42 miles (491 E 165TH STREET 1052 WASHINGTON)

### 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**: 6.83136 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 132 GARRETT A MORGAN** — 0.3 mi away, 12.3% (this school: 15.04%)
- **FAMILY SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.3 mi away, 14.25% (this school: 15.04%)
- **SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS** — 0.3 mi away, 14.45% (this school: 15.04%)
- **HARRIET TUBMAN CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 1.38% (this school: 15.04%)
- **SOUTH BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 7.11% (this school: 15.04%)

### ela proficiency
- **JHS 22 JORDAN L MOTT** — 0.1 mi away, 25% (this school: 24%)
- **BRONX WRITING ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 24%)
- **HARRIET TUBMAN CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 63% (this school: 24%)
- **NEW PATHWAYS ACADEMY** — 0.4 mi away, 39% (this school: 24%)
- **KAPPA** — 0.4 mi away, 46% (this school: 24%)

### math proficiency
- **HARRIET TUBMAN CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 69.5% (this school: 37%)
- **NEW PATHWAYS ACADEMY** — 0.4 mi away, 39% (this school: 37%)
- **KAPPA** — 0.4 mi away, 59.8% (this school: 37%)
- **PS 63 AUTHOR'S ACADEMY** — 0.5 mi away, 47% (this school: 37%)
- **ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 1** — 0.6 mi away, 94% (this school: 37%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-basheer-quisim-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-basheer-quisim-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-basheer-quisim-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-basheer-quisim-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-basheer-quisim-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-basheer-quisim-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-basheer-quisim-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-basheer-quisim-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-basheer-quisim-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-basheer-quisim-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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