# VAN RENSSELAER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/van-rensselaer-elementary-school-rensselaer/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/van-rensselaer-elementary-school-rensselaer

---

## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362445003342`
- **School name**: VAN RENSSELAER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: RENSSELAER, NY 12144
- **Address**: 25 VAN RENSSELAER DR
- **District**: RENSSELAER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3624450`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.65411, -73.72112
- **Phone**: (518)436-4618

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 487
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Targeted Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 2
  - overall_status: Targeted Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 42.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 42.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.4% (142 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.7% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.0% (38 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.2%
- **Black/African American**: 16.8%
- **Asian**: 12.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 47.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 11.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 0.0%
- **English Learners**: 12.0% — 57 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 27 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,575
- **Federal share**: $4,418
- **State + local share**: $22,157
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 475
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $31,633,962
- **Federal share**: 17.4%
- **State share**: 52.3%
- **Local share**: 30.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,779,245

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $105,286
- **Poverty rate**: 9.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.9%
- **Unemployment**: 3.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,684
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.4 miles (DEWEY LOEFFEL LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 36
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.26 miles (THE HOLLOW)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: RENSSELAER CITY PWS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 15
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.46316 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BELL TOP SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.05%)
- **RED MILL SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 0.64% (this school: 1.05%)
- **COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 0.33% (this school: 1.05%)
- **BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.05%)
- **BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.05%)

### ela proficiency
- **NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 26% (this school: 25%)
- **KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 32% (this school: 25%)
- **BELL TOP SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 70% (this school: 25%)
- **RED MILL SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 60% (this school: 25%)
- **MENANDS SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 51% (this school: 25%)

### math proficiency
- **BELL TOP SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 84% (this school: 34%)
- **RED MILL SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 34%)
- **MENANDS SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 69% (this school: 34%)
- **WILLIAM S HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 56.67% (this school: 34%)
- **HENRY JOHNSON CHARTER SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 65% (this school: 34%)

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

---
*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.*

*Canonical cross-domain architecture: WhatSchool.ai · Spill.org · CourseMap.org · WhatCareer.net*