# MS 839

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009206567`
- **School name**: MS 839
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11218
- **Address**: 713 CATON AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #15 (LEAID `3600092`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.64784, -73.97325
- **Phone**: (718)686-2730
- **Wikidata QID**: Q115121736

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 310
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - 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 13.3% (48 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.3% (7 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**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.6%
- **Black/African American**: 13.0%
- **Asian**: 10.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 43.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 4.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 43.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 31.1% — 95 students
- **English Learners**: 5.6% — 17 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,150
- **Federal share**: $4,402
- **State + local share**: $27,748
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 305
### 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**: $152,739
- **Poverty rate**: 11.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 69.9%
- **Unemployment**: 2.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,868
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.4 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 76
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.47 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**: 7.19846 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BROOKLYN COLLEGE ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 0.97% (this school: 2.3%)
- **PS 130 PARKSIDE (THE)** — 0.2 mi away, 1.27% (this school: 2.3%)
- **PS 889** — 0.2 mi away, 1.23% (this school: 2.3%)
- **BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL - CSD 15.2** — 0.3 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 2.3%)
- **PS 249 CATON (THE)** — 0.4 mi away, 1.86% (this school: 2.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **BROOKLYN URBAN GARDEN CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 79% (this school: 60%)
- **PS 134** — 1.1 mi away, 69% (this school: 60%)
- **PS 107 JOHN W KIMBALL** — 1.1 mi away, 81% (this school: 60%)
- **PS 295** — 1.2 mi away, 64% (this school: 60%)
- **EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 64% (this school: 60%)

### math proficiency
- **MS 890** — 0.2 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 62%)
- **JHS 62 DITMAS** — 0.7 mi away, 63.6% (this school: 62%)
- **BROOKLYN URBAN GARDEN CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 72.6% (this school: 62%)
- **PS 164 CAESAR RODNEY** — 1.0 mi away, 71% (this school: 62%)
- **PS 134** — 1.1 mi away, 88% (this school: 62%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-839-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-839-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-839-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-839-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-839-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-839-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-839-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-839-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-839-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-839-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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