# BELL ACADEMY

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/bell-academy-bayside

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012205979`
- **School name**: BELL ACADEMY
- **Location**: BAYSIDE, NY 11360
- **Address**: 18-25 212TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 (LEAID `3600122`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.78260, -73.77880
- **Phone**: (718)428-0587
- **Wikidata QID**: Q105019027

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 441
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.1%

## 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 4.8% (17 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.9% (61 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**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 26.9%
- **Black/African American**: 39.7%
- **Asian**: 3.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 27.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 42.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 25.0% — 90 students
- **English Learners**: 1.7% — 6 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 41 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,151
- **Federal share**: $4,036
- **State + local share**: $24,114
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 361
### 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**: $95,653
- **Poverty rate**: 7.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 53.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,057
- **Foreign-born residents**: 26.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.3 miles (STANTON CLEANERS AREA GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.97 miles (33 10 154TH STREET)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.82155 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **PS 94 DAVID D PORTER** — 2.2 mi away, 90% (this school: 85%)
- **MANHASSET MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 87% (this school: 85%)
- **PS 196 GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY** — 5.2 mi away, 90% (this school: 85%)
- **ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 2** — 6.0 mi away, 88% (this school: 85%)
- **ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 4** — 6.1 mi away, 97% (this school: 85%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 41 CROCHERON** — 1.0 mi away, 90% (this school: 89.8%)
- **PS 130** — 1.6 mi away, 91% (this school: 89.8%)
- **PS 203 OAKLAND GARDENS** — 2.2 mi away, 92% (this school: 89.8%)
- **PS 94 DAVID D PORTER** — 2.2 mi away, 96% (this school: 89.8%)
- **JHS 74 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE** — 2.7 mi away, 91% (this school: 89.8%)

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