# PS 53

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-brooklyn/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-53-brooklyn

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360013504605`
- **School name**: PS 53
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11215
- **Address**: 544 7TH AVE
- **District**: NYC SPECIAL SCHOOLS - DISTRICT 75 (LEAID `3600135`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Special education
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.66057, -73.98831
- **Phone**: (718)832-3563

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 406
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 73
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 5.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.3%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 60.4% (261 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 62.6% (254 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**: 1.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 39.8%
- **Black/African American**: 10.8%
- **Asian**: 36.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 3.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 116.5% — 473 students
- **English Learners**: 32.5% — 132 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $106,420
- **Federal share**: $2,574
- **State + local share**: $103,846
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 406
### 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**: $159,297
- **Poverty rate**: 6.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 79.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,489
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.5 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 11
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 92
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.76 miles (1194 PROSPECT AVENUE)

### 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**: 7.19846 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.1 miles

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