# JOHN DEWEY HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015204312`
- **School name**: JOHN DEWEY HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11223
- **Address**: 50 AVE X
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (LEAID `3600152`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.58770, -73.98160
- **Phone**: (718)373-6400
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6229310 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey_High_School
- **Founded**: 1969

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,209
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 163
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS ELP: 3
  - HS Grad Rate: 2
  - HS Core Performance: 3
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS Attendance: 3
  - EM Growth: s
  - EM Weight Performance: s
  - EM Core Performance: s
  - EM Attendance: s
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - EM ELP: s
  - 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**: 82.0% (cohort of 584)
- **2021**: 79.0% (cohort of 562)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 72.2% (1,633 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.8% (104 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.6% (57 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 26.2% (573 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**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 26.0%
- **Black/African American**: 27.3%
- **Asian**: 28.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 15.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.8%
- **Two or more races**: 1.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.8% — 302 students
- **English Learners**: 18.4% — 402 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 178 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 37 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 35 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,902
- **Federal share**: $4,123
- **State + local share**: $23,779
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,178
### 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**: $77,500
- **Poverty rate**: 7.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,217
- **Foreign-born residents**: 68.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.5 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.01 miles (1814 CONEY ISLAND AVE)

### 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**: 4.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 721 BROOKLYN OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING CENTER** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.76%)
- **PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY** — 0.2 mi away, 1.39% (this school: 4.76%)
- **KINGSBOROUGH EARLY COLLEGE SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 2.77% (this school: 4.76%)
- **CONEY ISLAND PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 1.95% (this school: 4.76%)
- **RACHEL CARSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR COASTAL STUDIES** — 0.6 mi away, 1.87% (this school: 4.76%)

### graduation rate
- **LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 83% (this school: 82%)
- **CONEY ISLAND PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 87% (this school: 82%)
- **RACHEL CARSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR COASTAL STUDIES** — 0.6 mi away, 87% (this school: 82%)
- **ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 84% (this school: 82%)
- **BROOKLYN STUDIO SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 92% (this school: 82%)

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