# PS/IS 218 RAFAEL HERNANDEZ DUAL LANGUAGE MAGNET SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008603742`
- **School name**: PS/IS 218 RAFAEL HERNANDEZ DUAL LANGUAGE MAGNET SCHOOL
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10452
- **Address**: 1220 GERARD AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 (LEAID `3600086`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.83580, -73.91980
- **Phone**: (718)410-7230
- **Wikidata QID**: Q102304581

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 807
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 78
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.0%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.6% (306 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.1% (43 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.1% (43 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 28.5% (238 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**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 90.8%
- **Black/African American**: 2.2%
- **Asian**: 3.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.1% — 193 students
- **English Learners**: 34.7% — 290 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 111 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### 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**: $24,383
- **Poverty rate**: 53.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.2%
- **Unemployment**: 12.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,503
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.2 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 71
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.70 miles (316 EAST 162ND 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**: 6.83136 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **AECI II:  NYC CHARTER HS** — 0.1 mi away, 0.65% (this school: 5.14%)
- **FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 4.17% (this school: 5.14%)
- **ZETA CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX  MOUNT EDEN** — 0.4 mi away, 1.28% (this school: 5.14%)
- **HIGHBRIDGE GREEN SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.5 mi away, 2.33% (this school: 5.14%)
- **BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY** — 0.5 mi away, 3.74% (this school: 5.14%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-218-rafael-hernandez-dual-language-magnet-school-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-218-rafael-hernandez-dual-language-magnet-school-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-218-rafael-hernandez-dual-language-magnet-school-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-218-rafael-hernandez-dual-language-magnet-school-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-218-rafael-hernandez-dual-language-magnet-school-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-218-rafael-hernandez-dual-language-magnet-school-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-218-rafael-hernandez-dual-language-magnet-school-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-218-rafael-hernandez-dual-language-magnet-school-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-218-rafael-hernandez-dual-language-magnet-school-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-is-218-rafael-hernandez-dual-language-magnet-school-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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