# PS 87

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008802336`
- **School name**: PS 87
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10466
- **Address**: 1935 BUSSING AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11 (LEAID `3600088`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.89540, -73.84600
- **Phone**: (718)324-5188

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 307
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - 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 41.2% (183 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.4% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 17.2% (51 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 48.5% (144 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**: 3.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 22.9%
- **Black/African American**: 2.9%
- **Asian**: 64.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.9%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 39.4% — 117 students
- **English Learners**: 5.0% — 15 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 39 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $34,123
- **Federal share**: $6,482
- **State + local share**: $27,641
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 297
### 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**: $101,163
- **Poverty rate**: 12.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.5%
- **Unemployment**: 14.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,784
- **Foreign-born residents**: 53.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.8 miles (STANTON CLEANERS AREA GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 49
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.59 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**: 2.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 4** — 0.3 mi away, 0.57% (this school: 4.38%)
- **PS 68** — 0.5 mi away, 2.24% (this school: 4.38%)
- **ONE WORLD MIDDLE SCHOOL AT EDENWALD** — 0.7 mi away, 2.4% (this school: 4.38%)
- **PS 112 BRONXWOOD** — 0.8 mi away, 4.31% (this school: 4.38%)
- **BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNING** — 0.8 mi away, 1.5% (this school: 4.38%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 68** — 0.5 mi away, 49% (this school: 33%)
- **CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 35% (this school: 33%)
- **BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 42% (this school: 33%)
- **BRONX ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 37% (this school: 33%)
- **BENJAMIN TURNER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 40% (this school: 33%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 68** — 0.5 mi away, 55% (this school: 33%)
- **BRONX ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 36.4% (this school: 33%)
- **PS 103 HECTOR FONTANEZ** — 0.9 mi away, 49% (this school: 33%)
- **PS 21 PHILIP H SHERIDAN** — 0.9 mi away, 53% (this school: 33%)
- **DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTS** — 1.0 mi away, 46.5% (this school: 33%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-87-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-87-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-87-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-87-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-87-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-87-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-87-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-87-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-87-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-87-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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