# BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012105997`
- **School name**: BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11212
- **Address**: 985 ROCKAWAY AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 (LEAID `3600121`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.65571, -73.90675
- **Phone**: (718)342-6348
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4974809 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Democracy_Academy

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 166
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Weight Performance: 1
  - HS Attendance: 1
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS CCCR: 1
  - HS Core Performance: 1
  - HS Grad Rate: 1
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 29.0% (cohort of 68)
- **2021**: 32.0% (cohort of 87)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 146.7% (179 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.1% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 17.7% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 106.9% (187 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**: 2.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.3%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 78.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 34.9% — 61 students
- **English Learners**: 3.4% — 6 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 51 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,480
- **Federal share**: $5,868
- **State + local share**: $29,613
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 175
### 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**: $50,603
- **Poverty rate**: 5.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.5%
- **Unemployment**: 1.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,433
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.6 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 78
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.74 miles (402 SNEDIKER AVE BEVERLY S PLACE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CORNER STONE COURT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.36016 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **KAPPA V (KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREP ACADEMY)** — 0.0 mi away, 8.54% (this school: 13.14%)
- **LEADERSHIP PREPARATORY BROWNSVILLE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 6.26% (this school: 13.14%)
- **CULTURAL ARTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL AT SPRING CREEK** — 0.1 mi away, 2.97% (this school: 13.14%)
- **MOTT HALL IV** — 0.3 mi away, 1.82% (this school: 13.14%)
- **RIVERDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 3.18% (this school: 13.14%)

### graduation rate
- **TEACHERS PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 68% (this school: 29%)
- **OLYMPUS ACADEMY** — 0.8 mi away, 48% (this school: 29%)
- **BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 74% (this school: 29%)
- **ACHIEVEMENT FIRST EAST NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 87% (this school: 29%)
- **KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 82% (this school: 29%)

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