# MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009402163`
- **School name**: MS 35 STEPHEN DECATUR
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11233
- **Address**: 272 MACDONOUGH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #16 (LEAID `3600094`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.68180, -73.93560
- **Phone**: (718)574-2345
- **Wikidata QID**: Q104128929

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 175
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 4
  - 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 29.2% (54 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.8% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.9% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 36.2% (64 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**: 15.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 81.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 44.1% — 78 students
- **English Learners**: 3.4% — 6 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 42 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $43,102
- **Federal share**: $9,156
- **State + local share**: $33,946
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 177
### 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**: $111,989
- **Poverty rate**: 10.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 51.0%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,343
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.9 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 151
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.46 miles (1 HUNTERFLY PLACE)

### 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**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 1.5% (this school: 6.78%)
- **BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL - CSD 13.2** — 0.2 mi away, 1.48% (this school: 6.78%)
- **PS 262 EL HAJJ MALIK EL SHABAZZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 5% (this school: 6.78%)
- **PS 243 WEEKSVILLE SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.4 mi away, 1.21% (this school: 6.78%)
- **LAUNCH EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 6.11% (this school: 6.78%)

### ela proficiency
- **BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 74% (this school: 69%)
- **MS 267 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY** — 0.5 mi away, 76% (this school: 69%)
- **PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY** — 1.3 mi away, 76% (this school: 69%)
- **PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN** — 1.6 mi away, 91% (this school: 69%)
- **PS 268 EMMA LAZARUS** — 1.7 mi away, 73% (this school: 69%)

### math proficiency
- **BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 69% (this school: 64.5%)
- **EMBER CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 68.8% (this school: 64.5%)
- **MS 267 MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY** — 0.5 mi away, 79.25% (this school: 64.5%)
- **ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS** — 0.6 mi away, 67% (this school: 64.5%)
- **PS 5 DR RONALD MCNAIR** — 0.7 mi away, 74% (this school: 64.5%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-35-stephen-decatur-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-35-stephen-decatur-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-35-stephen-decatur-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-35-stephen-decatur-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-35-stephen-decatur-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-35-stephen-decatur-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-35-stephen-decatur-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-35-stephen-decatur-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-35-stephen-decatur-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-35-stephen-decatur-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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