# PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015102679`
- **School name**: PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11214
- **Address**: 1940 BENSON AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #20 (LEAID `3600151`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.60300, -74.00170
- **Phone**: (718)236-5466

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,209
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 90
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - 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 33.5% (435 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (22 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.1% (273 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**: 20.1%
- **Black/African American**: 36.4%
- **Asian**: 0.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 41.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.6% — 168 students
- **English Learners**: 32.6% — 403 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 84 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 27 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,273
- **Federal share**: $4,200
- **State + local share**: $23,073
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,236
### 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**: $54,219
- **Poverty rate**: 13.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.9%
- **Unemployment**: 2.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,842
- **Foreign-born residents**: 53.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.5 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 37
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.15 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**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 128 BENSONHURST** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.78%)
- **BROOKLYN STUDIO SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.91% (this school: 1.78%)
- **PS 101 VERRAZANO (THE)** — 0.6 mi away, 0.27% (this school: 1.78%)
- **PS 186 DR IRVING A GLADSTONE** — 0.7 mi away, 1.31% (this school: 1.78%)
- **PS 204 VINCE LOMBARDI** — 0.8 mi away, 0.6% (this school: 1.78%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 163 BATH BEACH** — 0.4 mi away, 74% (this school: 49%)
- **IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO** — 0.7 mi away, 55% (this school: 49%)
- **PS 204 VINCE LOMBARDI** — 0.8 mi away, 57% (this school: 49%)
- **PS 229 DYKER** — 0.8 mi away, 69% (this school: 49%)
- **BROOKLYN SCHOOL OF INQUIRY** — 0.8 mi away, 88% (this school: 49%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 163 BATH BEACH** — 0.4 mi away, 90.4% (this school: 64%)
- **IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO** — 0.7 mi away, 65.75% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 204 VINCE LOMBARDI** — 0.8 mi away, 72% (this school: 64%)
- **PS 229 DYKER** — 0.8 mi away, 77.8% (this school: 64%)
- **BROOKLYN SCHOOL OF INQUIRY** — 0.8 mi away, 94.6% (this school: 64%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-200-benson-school-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-200-benson-school-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-200-benson-school-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-200-benson-school-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-200-benson-school-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-200-benson-school-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-200-benson-school-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-200-benson-school-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-200-benson-school-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-200-benson-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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