# SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/special-music-school-new-york/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/special-music-school-new-york

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007806115`
- **School name**: SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10023
- **Address**: 129 W 67TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 (LEAID `3600078`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.77525, -73.98305
- **Phone**: (212)501-3318
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14707317 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Music_School
- **Founded**: 1996

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 305
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 24.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Grad Rate: 4
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS CCCR: 3
  - HS Attendance: 3
  - EM Growth: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - HS Weight Performance: 4
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 100.0% (cohort of 48)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 47)
- **2019**: 95.0% (cohort of 42)
- **2018**: 95.0% (cohort of 45)
- **2017**: 95.0% (cohort of 51)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.0% (9 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 9.7% (29 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**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.9%
- **Black/African American**: 14.5%
- **Asian**: 7.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 45.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 14.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 26.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.7% — 32 students
- **English Learners**: 1.0% — 3 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,191
- **Federal share**: $4,936
- **State + local share**: $22,254
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 301
### 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**: $151,935
- **Poverty rate**: 5.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 88.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,441
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.0 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 154
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.72 miles (540 W 53RD CLINTON HOUSING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUBURBANS COMMUNITY MHP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.9122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

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