# PS 99 KEW GARDENS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010002376`
- **School name**: PS 99 KEW GARDENS
- **Location**: KEW GARDENS, NY 11415
- **Address**: 82-37 KEW GARDENS RD
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 (LEAID `3600100`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 40.71130, -73.82800
- **Phone**: (718)544-4343

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 758
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 2
  - 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 9.6% (67 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.6% (27 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.8% (125 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**: 40.0%
- **Black/African American**: 20.9%
- **Asian**: 5.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 25.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 6.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.2% — 158 students
- **English Learners**: 13.3% — 99 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 71 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,979
- **Federal share**: $3,109
- **State + local share**: $27,869
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 744
### 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**: $103,958
- **Poverty rate**: 3.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 71.6%
- **Unemployment**: 4.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,193
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.1 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 48
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.58 miles (97 04 SUTPHIN BLVD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PSP LEHIGHTON BARRACKS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 164 QUEENS VALLEY** — 0.7 mi away, 1.65% (this school: 1.88%)
- **PS 101 SCHOOL IN THE GARDENS** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.88%)
- **PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.88%)
- **QUEENS GATEWAY TO HEALTH SCIENCES SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 1.75% (this school: 1.88%)
- **YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL-QUEENS** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.88%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 101 SCHOOL IN THE GARDENS** — 0.9 mi away, 84% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY** — 0.9 mi away, 90% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN** — 1.3 mi away, 75% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 174 WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT** — 1.9 mi away, 72% (this school: 66%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 101 SCHOOL IN THE GARDENS** — 0.9 mi away, 88% (this school: 79.5%)
- **PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY** — 0.9 mi away, 97% (this school: 79.5%)
- **PS 144 COL JEROMUS REMSEN** — 1.3 mi away, 87% (this school: 79.5%)
- **PS 66 JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS** — 1.3 mi away, 90% (this school: 79.5%)
- **PS/IS 113 ANTHONY J PRANZO** — 1.8 mi away, 80.6% (this school: 79.5%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-99-kew-gardens-kew-gardens
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-99-kew-gardens-kew-gardens/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-99-kew-gardens-kew-gardens/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-99-kew-gardens-kew-gardens/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-99-kew-gardens-kew-gardens/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-99-kew-gardens-kew-gardens/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-99-kew-gardens-kew-gardens/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-99-kew-gardens-kew-gardens/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-99-kew-gardens-kew-gardens/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-99-kew-gardens-kew-gardens/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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