# BRONX WRITING ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008605664`
- **School name**: BRONX WRITING ACADEMY
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10456
- **Address**: 270 E 167TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 (LEAID `3600086`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.83230, -73.91420
- **Phone**: (718)293-9048
- **Wikidata QID**: Q102304591

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 184
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 6.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 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 40.3% (133 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.0% (39 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 26.1% (60 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 97.8% (225 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**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 67.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 27.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.9%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 47.8% — 110 students
- **English Learners**: 54.8% — 126 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 53 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 27 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $45,286
- **Federal share**: $5,495
- **State + local share**: $39,791
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 230
### 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)
- **Poverty rate**: 32.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.0%
- **Unemployment**: 10.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $997
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 60.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.4 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 62
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.45 miles (491 E 165TH STREET 1052 WASHINGTON)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KINGSTON CENTER AN0
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 11
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-29

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.83136 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 53 BASHEER QUISIM** — 0.1 mi away, 15.04% (this school: 16.96%)
- **FAMILY SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.2 mi away, 14.25% (this school: 16.96%)
- **SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS** — 0.2 mi away, 14.45% (this school: 16.96%)
- **SOUTH BRONX INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 3.77% (this school: 16.96%)
- **NEW PATHWAYS ACADEMY** — 0.3 mi away, 11.31% (this school: 16.96%)

### ela proficiency
- **NEW PATHWAYS ACADEMY** — 0.3 mi away, 39% (this school: 38%)
- **HARRIET TUBMAN CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 63% (this school: 38%)
- **KAPPA** — 0.5 mi away, 46% (this school: 38%)
- **ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 1** — 0.7 mi away, 81% (this school: 38%)
- **ZETA CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX  MOUNT EDEN** — 0.7 mi away, 55% (this school: 38%)

### math proficiency
- **JHS 22 JORDAN L MOTT** — 0.0 mi away, 25.5% (this school: 19.75%)
- **PS 53 BASHEER QUISIM** — 0.1 mi away, 37% (this school: 19.75%)
- **NEW PATHWAYS ACADEMY** — 0.3 mi away, 39% (this school: 19.75%)
- **GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 25% (this school: 19.75%)
- **PS 132 GARRETT A MORGAN** — 0.4 mi away, 22% (this school: 19.75%)

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