# EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015705846`
- **School name**: EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11226
- **Address**: 655 PARKSIDE AVE
- **District**: EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3600157`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 40.65641, -73.95152
- **Phone**: (718)703-4484

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 574
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - 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 29.6% (169 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.9% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.7% (98 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 19.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 76.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.3% — 75 students
- **English Learners**: 9.8% — 51 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,898
- **Federal share**: $7,906
- **State + local share**: $3,992
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 524
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,586,716

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $96,627
- **Poverty rate**: 10.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 48.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,788
- **Foreign-born residents**: 41.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.6 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 100
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.31 miles (1194 PROSPECT AVENUE)

### 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
- **PS 141** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.87%)
- **ACHIEVEMENT FIRST VOYAGER CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 2.6% (this school: 2.87%)
- **FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.87%)
- **PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE** — 0.3 mi away, 2.4% (this school: 2.87%)
- **PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 1.25% (this school: 2.87%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON** — 1.0 mi away, 65% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 268 EMMA LAZARUS** — 1.2 mi away, 73% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY** — 1.3 mi away, 76% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 208 ELSA EBELING** — 1.5 mi away, 67% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 107 JOHN W KIMBALL** — 1.6 mi away, 81% (this school: 64%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE** — 0.3 mi away, 77% (this school: 70.5%)
- **KINGS COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 80.2% (this school: 70.5%)
- **PS 268 EMMA LAZARUS** — 1.2 mi away, 86% (this school: 70.5%)
- **PS 316 ELIJAH STROUD** — 1.4 mi away, 76% (this school: 70.5%)
- **PS 244 RICHARD R GREEN** — 1.5 mi away, 71% (this school: 70.5%)

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