# PS 97 FOREST PARK

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012302369`
- **School name**: PS 97 FOREST PARK
- **Location**: WOODHAVEN, NY 11421
- **Address**: 85-52 85TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 (LEAID `3600123`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.69420, -73.85990
- **Phone**: (718)849-4870

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 575
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - 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 24.5% (153 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.6% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 29.1% (166 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**: 71.6%
- **Black/African American**: 18.1%
- **Asian**: 2.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 86.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.0% — 114 students
- **English Learners**: 29.3% — 167 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 55 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,704
- **Federal share**: $4,072
- **State + local share**: $27,632
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 570
### 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**: $84,656
- **Poverty rate**: 3.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,704
- **Foreign-born residents**: 53.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.2 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 78
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.16 miles (242 CHESTNUT STREET)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **PS 60 WOODHAVEN** — 0.4 mi away, 44% (this school: 41%)
- **HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 45% (this school: 41%)
- **PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 41%)
- **PS/IS 113 ANTHONY J PRANZO** — 0.8 mi away, 62% (this school: 41%)
- **PS 273** — 0.8 mi away, 48% (this school: 41%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 60 WOODHAVEN** — 0.4 mi away, 56% (this school: 51%)
- **PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS** — 0.8 mi away, 90% (this school: 51%)
- **PS/IS 113 ANTHONY J PRANZO** — 0.8 mi away, 80.6% (this school: 51%)
- **PS 273** — 0.8 mi away, 57% (this school: 51%)
- **PS 64 JOSEPH P ADDABBO** — 0.9 mi away, 53% (this school: 51%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-97-forest-park-woodhaven
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-97-forest-park-woodhaven/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-97-forest-park-woodhaven/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-97-forest-park-woodhaven/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-97-forest-park-woodhaven/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-97-forest-park-woodhaven/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-97-forest-park-woodhaven/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-97-forest-park-woodhaven/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-97-forest-park-woodhaven/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-97-forest-park-woodhaven/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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