# PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008702244`
- **School name**: PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10467
- **Address**: 341 E 207TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 (LEAID `3600087`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.87530, -73.87500
- **Phone**: (718)920-1100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 617
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 45
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.1%

## 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: 1
  - 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 25.3% (169 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.1% (32 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.0% (44 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 32.3% (202 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**: 1.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 62.2%
- **Black/African American**: 20.4%
- **Asian**: 8.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.4% — 165 students
- **English Learners**: 19.5% — 122 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 58 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 41 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,853
- **Federal share**: $5,326
- **State + local share**: $26,528
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 627
### 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**: $42,647
- **Poverty rate**: 22.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.0%
- **Unemployment**: 11.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,521
- **Foreign-born residents**: 40.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.7 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 47
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.53 miles (707 EAST 211TH STREET)

### 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**: 6.43167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 1.49% (this school: 5.11%)
- **PS 168** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.11%)
- **WORLD VIEW HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 4.09% (this school: 5.11%)
- **PS 76 BENNINGTON SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.8 mi away, 3.92% (this school: 5.11%)
- **LEADERS OF TOMORROW** — 0.8 mi away, 4.19% (this school: 5.11%)

### ela proficiency
- **BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 34%)
- **PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY** — 0.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 34%)
- **BRONX DANCE ACADEMY SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 62% (this school: 34%)
- **AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD** — 1.0 mi away, 54% (this school: 34%)
- **PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS** — 1.0 mi away, 70% (this school: 34%)

### math proficiency
- **BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 45%)
- **PS/MS 280 MOSHOLU PARKWAY** — 0.4 mi away, 47% (this school: 45%)
- **PS 95 SHEILA MENCHER** — 1.0 mi away, 50.4% (this school: 45%)
- **AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD** — 1.0 mi away, 69% (this school: 45%)
- **PS 96 RICHARD RODGERS** — 1.0 mi away, 76% (this school: 45%)

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