# PS 161 ARTHUR ASHE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010004734`
- **School name**: PS 161 ARTHUR ASHE SCHOOL
- **Location**: JAMAICA, NY 11419
- **Address**: 101-33 124TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 (LEAID `3600100`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.69047, -73.82114
- **Phone**: (718)441-5493

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 558
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 83.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - 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 17.5% (102 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 27.4% (155 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**: 8.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.5%
- **Black/African American**: 69.1%
- **Asian**: 4.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.4%
- **Two or more races**: 1.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 84 students
- **English Learners**: 17.3% — 98 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 43 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,172
- **Federal share**: $3,572
- **State + local share**: $25,600
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 567
### 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**: $79,539
- **Poverty rate**: 11.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.7%
- **Unemployment**: 8.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,017
- **Foreign-born residents**: 60.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.2 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 25
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.94 miles (97 04 SUTPHIN BLVD)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **PS 55 MAURE** — 0.3 mi away, 56% (this school: 50%)
- **PS 121** — 0.5 mi away, 82% (this school: 50%)
- **PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER** — 0.9 mi away, 58% (this school: 50%)
- **PS 155** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 50%)
- **HAWTREE CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 58% (this school: 50%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 55 MAURE** — 0.3 mi away, 69% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 121** — 0.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 108 CAPTAIN VINCENT G FOWLER** — 0.9 mi away, 69% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 155** — 0.9 mi away, 74% (this school: 66%)
- **PS 96** — 1.3 mi away, 71% (this school: 66%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/ps-161-arthur-ashe-school-jamaica
- **Performance**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/ps-161-arthur-ashe-school-jamaica/performance
- **Finance**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/ps-161-arthur-ashe-school-jamaica/finance
- **Demographics**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/ps-161-arthur-ashe-school-jamaica/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/ps-161-arthur-ashe-school-jamaica/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/ps-161-arthur-ashe-school-jamaica/context
- **Attendance**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/ps-161-arthur-ashe-school-jamaica/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/ps-161-arthur-ashe-school-jamaica/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/ps-161-arthur-ashe-school-jamaica/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://whatschool.ai/en/us/ny/school/ps-161-arthur-ashe-school-jamaica/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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