# EXPLORE EMPOWER CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360099406151`
- **School name**: EXPLORE EMPOWER CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11213
- **Address**: 188 ROCHESTER AVE
- **District**: EXPLORE EMPOWER CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3600994`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 40.67271, -73.92831
- **Phone**: (718)771-2090

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 500
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - 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 40.5% (200 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.5% (33 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.7% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 28.3% (125 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 87.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 86.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 32.0% — 141 students
- **English Learners**: 5.9% — 26 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,638
- **Federal share**: $9,792
- **State + local share**: $3,845
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 441
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,248,908

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $52,644
- **Poverty rate**: 23.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.9%
- **Unemployment**: 10.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,326
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.0 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 132
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.21 miles (BUSHWICK HOUSING SITES 1 2)

### 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**: 1.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BROOKLYN GREEN SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.1 mi away, 1.56% (this school: 7.48%)
- **NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY** — 0.4 mi away, 5.67% (this school: 7.48%)
- **PS 243 WEEKSVILLE SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.4 mi away, 1.21% (this school: 7.48%)
- **LAUNCH EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 6.11% (this school: 7.48%)
- **SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED LEARNING (THE)** — 0.5 mi away, 6.82% (this school: 7.48%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 21 CRISPUS ATTUCKS** — 0.6 mi away, 58% (this school: 56%)
- **PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY** — 0.6 mi away, 76% (this school: 56%)
- **MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR** — 0.7 mi away, 69% (this school: 56%)
- **BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 74% (this school: 56%)
- **IS 392** — 0.7 mi away, 60% (this school: 56%)

### math proficiency
- **NEW BRIDGES ELEMENTARY** — 0.4 mi away, 55% (this school: 54.75%)
- **PS 21 CRISPUS ATTUCKS** — 0.6 mi away, 60% (this school: 54.75%)
- **PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY** — 0.6 mi away, 64% (this school: 54.75%)
- **PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER** — 0.6 mi away, 73% (this school: 54.75%)
- **PS 289 GEORGE V BROWER** — 0.7 mi away, 57% (this school: 54.75%)

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