# BENJAMIN TURNER MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362010004345`
- **School name**: BENJAMIN TURNER MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: MOUNT VERNON, NY 10550
- **Address**: 624 S 3RD AVE
- **District**: MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3620100`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.89640, -73.82970
- **Phone**: (914)665-5150

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 340
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM Chronic Absenteeism: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA ELA3 (NYSED)** (grade 3): 48.0% proficient — 29 tested
- **ELA ELA3_8 (NYSED)** (grade 3_8): 40.0% proficient — 215 tested
- **ELA ELA4 (NYSED)** (grade 4): 40.0% proficient — 30 tested
- **ELA ELA5 (NYSED)** (grade 5): 38.0% proficient — 24 tested
- **ELA ELA6 (NYSED)** (grade 6): 57.0% proficient — 23 tested
- **ELA ELA7 (NYSED)** (grade 7): 37.0% proficient — 52 tested
- **ELA ELA8 (NYSED)** (grade 8): 32.0% proficient — 57 tested
- **Math Combined6Math (NYSED)**: 30.0% proficient — 23 tested
- **Math Combined7Math (NYSED)**: 17.0% proficient — 52 tested
- **Math Combined8Math (NYSED)**: 25.0% proficient — 57 tested
- **Math MATH3 (NYSED)** (grade 3): 52.0% proficient — 31 tested
- **Math MATH3_8 (NYSED)** (grade 3_8): 27.0% proficient — 217 tested
- **Math MATH4 (NYSED)** (grade 4): 20.0% proficient — 30 tested
- **Math MATH5 (NYSED)** (grade 5): 25.0% proficient — 24 tested
- **Math MATH6 (NYSED)** (grade 6): 30.0% proficient — 23 tested
- **Math MATH7 (NYSED)** (grade 7): 17.0% proficient — 52 tested
- **Math MATH8 (NYSED)** (grade 8): 25.0% proficient — 57 tested
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 46.8% (118 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.4% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.5% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.9% (85 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**: 17.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 80.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 28.0% — 104 students
- **English Learners**: 7.0% — 26 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 45 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 35 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 24 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $38,144
- **Federal share**: $3,995
- **State + local share**: $34,149
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 369
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $39,021,856
- **Federal share**: 8.9%
- **State share**: 46.4%
- **Local share**: 44.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $19,739,566

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $84,909
- **Poverty rate**: 5.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.1%
- **Unemployment**: 9.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,230
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.3 miles (STANTON CLEANERS AREA GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 11
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 45
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.13 miles (1824 ALLERTON AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MOUNT VERNON WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.43167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 68** — 0.6 mi away, 2.24% (this school: 2.43%)
- **BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 4** — 0.7 mi away, 0.57% (this school: 2.43%)
- **ONE WORLD MIDDLE SCHOOL AT EDENWALD** — 0.9 mi away, 2.4% (this school: 2.43%)
- **BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNING** — 0.9 mi away, 1.5% (this school: 2.43%)
- **PS 723** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.43%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 68** — 0.6 mi away, 49% (this school: 40%)
- **BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 42% (this school: 40%)
- **DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTS** — 0.9 mi away, 59% (this school: 40%)
- **AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 53% (this school: 40%)
- **PELHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 78% (this school: 40%)

### math proficiency
- **EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 37.4% (this school: 24.75%)
- **PS 68** — 0.6 mi away, 55% (this school: 24.75%)
- **GRAHAM SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 26.75% (this school: 24.75%)
- **PS 87** — 0.8 mi away, 33% (this school: 24.75%)
- **BAYCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 30% (this school: 24.75%)

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