# PS 56 LEWIS H LATIMER

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009102243`
- **School name**: PS 56 LEWIS H LATIMER
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11238
- **Address**: 170 GATES AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 (LEAID `3600091`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.68470, -73.96060
- **Phone**: (718)857-3149

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 253
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 41.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 3
  - 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 31.7% (86 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.1% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 8.6% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 26.1% (64 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**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 48.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 28.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 6.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 41.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.1% — 42 students
- **English Learners**: 5.3% — 13 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $36,292
- **Federal share**: $7,741
- **State + local share**: $28,552
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 245
### 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**: $162,933
- **Poverty rate**: 7.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 70.3%
- **Unemployment**: 9.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,016
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.4 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 153
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.51 miles (370 JAY STREET)

### 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**: 8.36016 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.0 mi away, 3.35% (this school: 4.08%)
- **PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN** — 0.3 mi away, 2.46% (this school: 4.08%)
- **BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0.84% (this school: 4.08%)
- **PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.08%)
- **PS 753 SCHOOL FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.08%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN** — 0.3 mi away, 91% (this school: 63%)
- **COMPASS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 68% (this school: 63%)
- **PS 316 ELIJAH STROUD** — 0.7 mi away, 64% (this school: 63%)
- **PS 20 CLINTON HILL** — 0.7 mi away, 72% (this school: 63%)
- **ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS** — 0.8 mi away, 69% (this school: 63%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN** — 0.3 mi away, 89% (this school: 54%)
- **COMPASS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 77% (this school: 54%)
- **PS 316 ELIJAH STROUD** — 0.7 mi away, 76% (this school: 54%)
- **PS 20 CLINTON HILL** — 0.7 mi away, 64% (this school: 54%)
- **ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS** — 0.8 mi away, 67% (this school: 54%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-56-lewis-h-latimer-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-56-lewis-h-latimer-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-56-lewis-h-latimer-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-56-lewis-h-latimer-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-56-lewis-h-latimer-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-56-lewis-h-latimer-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-56-lewis-h-latimer-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-56-lewis-h-latimer-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-56-lewis-h-latimer-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-56-lewis-h-latimer-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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