# MS 246 WALT WHITMAN

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009502760`
- **School name**: MS 246 WALT WHITMAN
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11226
- **Address**: 72 VERONICA PL
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 (LEAID `3600095`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.64840, -73.95310
- **Phone**: (718)282-5230
- **Wikidata QID**: Q104128949

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 357
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.8%

## 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: 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 70.6% (254 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.2% (56 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 15.3% (53 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 43.6% (151 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**: 2.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.6%
- **Black/African American**: 2.8%
- **Asian**: 59.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.6% — 92 students
- **English Learners**: 36.4% — 126 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 27 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,791
- **Federal share**: $6,025
- **State + local share**: $26,766
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 346
### 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**: $97,500
- **Poverty rate**: 18.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.7%
- **Unemployment**: 16.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,178
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.9 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 87
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.29 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**: 3.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 10.79% (this school: 16.18%)
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FLATBUSH** — 0.2 mi away, 1.42% (this school: 16.18%)
- **SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH EARLY COLLEGE** — 0.3 mi away, 1.4% (this school: 16.18%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT ERASMUS** — 0.3 mi away, 5.75% (this school: 16.18%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR SERVICE AND LEARNING AT ERASMUS** — 0.3 mi away, 10.92% (this school: 16.18%)

### ela proficiency
- **ACAD FOR COLLEGE PREP AND CAREER EXP** — 0.3 mi away, 41% (this school: 36%)
- **EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 64% (this school: 36%)
- **PS 245** — 0.6 mi away, 51% (this school: 36%)
- **PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 48% (this school: 36%)
- **PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE** — 0.8 mi away, 62% (this school: 36%)

### math proficiency
- **NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 33% (this school: 25.75%)
- **ACAD FOR COLLEGE PREP AND CAREER EXP** — 0.3 mi away, 45.25% (this school: 25.75%)
- **PS 181** — 0.4 mi away, 46.25% (this school: 25.75%)
- **PS 92 ADRIAN HEGEMAN** — 0.6 mi away, 37% (this school: 25.75%)
- **EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 25.75%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-246-walt-whitman-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-246-walt-whitman-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-246-walt-whitman-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-246-walt-whitman-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-246-walt-whitman-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-246-walt-whitman-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-246-walt-whitman-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-246-walt-whitman-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-246-walt-whitman-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-246-walt-whitman-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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