# IS 285 MEYER LEVIN

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009602795`
- **School name**: IS 285 MEYER LEVIN
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11203
- **Address**: 5909 BEVERLY RD
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 (LEAID `3600096`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.64760, -73.92070
- **Phone**: (718)451-2200
- **Wikidata QID**: Q104129348

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 512
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 2
  - 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 44.8% (341 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.0% (48 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 8.8% (42 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 49.3% (236 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**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 6.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 90.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.9% — 129 students
- **English Learners**: 5.4% — 26 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 52 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,200
- **Federal share**: $5,384
- **State + local share**: $29,815
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 479
### 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**: $78,929
- **Poverty rate**: 6.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.4%
- **Unemployment**: 10.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,425
- **Foreign-born residents**: 57.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.3 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 81
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.56 miles (WOLFF ALPORT IRVING AVENUE RIGHT OF WAY)

### 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**: 3.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 10% (this school: 10.02%)
- **CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES** — 0.1 mi away, 9.49% (this school: 10.02%)
- **PS 244 RICHARD R GREEN** — 0.3 mi away, 1.88% (this school: 10.02%)
- **BROOKLYN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY** — 0.3 mi away, 2.12% (this school: 10.02%)
- **IVY HILL PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 2.12% (this school: 10.02%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 244 RICHARD R GREEN** — 0.3 mi away, 55% (this school: 43%)
- **PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES** — 0.4 mi away, 44% (this school: 43%)
- **PS 208 ELSA EBELING** — 0.6 mi away, 67% (this school: 43%)
- **PS 114 RYDER ELEMENTARY** — 0.8 mi away, 47% (this school: 43%)
- **EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 49% (this school: 43%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 244 RICHARD R GREEN** — 0.3 mi away, 71% (this school: 55.4%)
- **PS 208 ELSA EBELING** — 0.6 mi away, 70% (this school: 55.4%)
- **EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 56% (this school: 55.4%)
- **PS 268 EMMA LAZARUS** — 0.8 mi away, 86% (this school: 55.4%)
- **PS 165 IDA POSNER** — 0.8 mi away, 63% (this school: 55.4%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-285-meyer-levin-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-285-meyer-levin-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-285-meyer-levin-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-285-meyer-levin-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-285-meyer-levin-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-285-meyer-levin-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-285-meyer-levin-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-285-meyer-levin-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-285-meyer-levin-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-285-meyer-levin-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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