# WATSON SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/watson-school-rockville-centre/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/watson-school-rockville-centre

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362478003432`
- **School name**: WATSON SCHOOL
- **Location**: ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY 11570
- **Address**: 277 N CENTRE AVE
- **District**: ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3624780`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.66590, -73.64930
- **Phone**: (516)255-8904

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 224
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 15.2%

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.4% (22 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.8% (43 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**: 13.8%
- **Black/African American**: 3.4%
- **Asian**: 10.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 68.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 15.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.5% — 31 students
- **English Learners**: 3.5% — 8 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Deaf-Blindness**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $37,388
- **Federal share**: $714
- **State + local share**: $36,674
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 229
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $36,988,119
- **Federal share**: 4.9%
- **State share**: 14.9%
- **Local share**: 80.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $24,103,448

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $103,505
- **Poverty rate**: 9.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 52.8%
- **Unemployment**: 5.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,475
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.0 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.44 miles (CIRCULO SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ROCKVILLE CENTRE (V)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.82155 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SOUTH SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.6% (this school: 1.31%)
- **MALVERNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 0.94% (this school: 1.31%)
- **HOWARD T HERBER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.31%)
- **HEWITT SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.31%)
- **RIVERSIDE SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.31%)

### ela proficiency
- **MCVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.0 mi away, 79% (this school: 78%)
- **DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL** — 6.2 mi away, 82% (this school: 78%)
- **PS 188 KINGSBURY** — 7.3 mi away, 82% (this school: 78%)
- **HERRICKS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 7.3 mi away, 81% (this school: 78%)
- **GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 7.4 mi away, 84% (this school: 78%)

### math proficiency
- **SOUTH SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 85.4% (this school: 72%)
- **HOWARD T HERBER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 81.33% (this school: 72%)
- **HEWITT SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 79% (this school: 72%)
- **WEST END SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 72%)
- **WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 73% (this school: 72%)

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