# PS 70

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010202289`
- **School name**: PS 70
- **Location**: LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11103
- **Address**: 30-45 42ND ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #30 (LEAID `3600102`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.76190, -73.91410
- **Phone**: (718)728-4646

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 770
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 59
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - 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 28.9% (231 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.7% (184 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**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 39.9%
- **Black/African American**: 16.5%
- **Asian**: 2.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 38.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.1% — 106 students
- **English Learners**: 23.7% — 192 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 57 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,160
- **Federal share**: $4,173
- **State + local share**: $25,988
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 809
### 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**: $62,740
- **Poverty rate**: 15.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.6%
- **Unemployment**: 11.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,230
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.8 miles (MEEKER AVENUE PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 11
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 151
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.18 miles (NELSON FOUNDRY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PINE TREE VILLAGE MHP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.70496 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 234** — 0.6 mi away, 0.69% (this school: 1.36%)
- **30TH AVENUE SCHOOL (THE) (G & T CITYWIDE)** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.36%)
- **OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 0.71% (this school: 1.36%)
- **FRANK SINATRA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 0.47% (this school: 1.36%)
- **PS 85 JUDGE CHARLES VALLONE** — 0.8 mi away, 0.74% (this school: 1.36%)

### ela proficiency
- **IS 10 HORACE GREELEY** — 0.2 mi away, 63% (this school: 49%)
- **PS 234** — 0.6 mi away, 72% (this school: 49%)
- **ACADEMY OF THE CITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 50% (this school: 49%)
- **PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN** — 0.7 mi away, 65% (this school: 49%)
- **PS 84 STEINWAY** — 0.8 mi away, 68% (this school: 49%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 234** — 0.6 mi away, 65% (this school: 56%)
- **PS 166 HENRY GRADSTEIN** — 0.7 mi away, 71% (this school: 56%)
- **PS 84 STEINWAY** — 0.8 mi away, 61% (this school: 56%)
- **PS 85 JUDGE CHARLES VALLONE** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 56%)
- **MS 429** — 0.9 mi away, 71% (this school: 56%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-70-long-island-city/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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