# JHS 62 DITMAS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015102266`
- **School name**: JHS 62 DITMAS
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11218
- **Address**: 700 CORTELYOU RD
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 (LEAID `3600151`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.63830, -73.97140
- **Phone**: (718)941-5450
- **Wikidata QID**: Q104129373

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 857
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 60
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Growth: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 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 52.1% (579 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.4% (72 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.3% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.6% (168 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**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 32.0%
- **Black/African American**: 37.8%
- **Asian**: 14.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 14.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 25.9% — 222 students
- **English Learners**: 30.2% — 259 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,608
- **Federal share**: $4,609
- **State + local share**: $24,999
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 858
### 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**: $73,988
- **Poverty rate**: 9.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 48.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,897
- **Foreign-born residents**: 47.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.1 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 61
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.54 miles (1075 1079 CONEY ISLAND 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**: 7.19846 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 179 KENSINGTON** — 0.3 mi away, 5.51% (this school: 8.39%)
- **PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY** — 0.3 mi away, 5.08% (this school: 8.39%)
- **PS 217 COLONEL DAVID MARCUS SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 2.29% (this school: 8.39%)
- **PS 134** — 0.4 mi away, 0.77% (this school: 8.39%)
- **BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 6.04% (this school: 8.39%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 134** — 0.4 mi away, 69% (this school: 57%)
- **MS 890** — 0.4 mi away, 58% (this school: 57%)
- **MS 839** — 0.7 mi away, 60% (this school: 57%)
- **PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY** — 0.8 mi away, 58% (this school: 57%)
- **BROOKLYN URBAN GARDEN CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 79% (this school: 57%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 134** — 0.4 mi away, 88% (this school: 63.6%)
- **MS 890** — 0.4 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 63.6%)
- **PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY** — 0.8 mi away, 71% (this school: 63.6%)
- **BROOKLYN URBAN GARDEN CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 72.6% (this school: 63.6%)
- **PS 160 WILLIAM T SAMPSON** — 1.5 mi away, 76% (this school: 63.6%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-62-ditmas-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-62-ditmas-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-62-ditmas-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-62-ditmas-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-62-ditmas-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-62-ditmas-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-62-ditmas-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-62-ditmas-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-62-ditmas-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-62-ditmas-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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