# PS 256 BENJAMIN BANNEKER

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009102772`
- **School name**: PS 256 BENJAMIN BANNEKER
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11216
- **Address**: 114 KOSCIUSKO ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 (LEAID `3600091`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.69060, -73.94950
- **Phone**: (718)857-9820

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 178
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 6.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 1
  - EM 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 81.8% (162 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.1% (32 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 19.1% (38 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 84.9% (169 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**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 39.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 55.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.6% — 49 students
- **English Learners**: 12.6% — 25 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $39,300
- **Federal share**: $12,003
- **State + local share**: $27,296
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 199
### 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**: $77,328
- **Poverty rate**: 31.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 56.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,173
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.0 miles (NEWTOWN CREEK)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 160
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.06 miles (BROADWAY TRIANGLE BLOCK 2266 LOT 18)

### 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**: 1.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 54 SAMUEL C BARNES** — 0.2 mi away, 2.92% (this school: 16.08%)
- **BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.3 mi away, 14.57% (this school: 16.08%)
- **ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS** — 0.4 mi away, 1.52% (this school: 16.08%)
- **BEDFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.84% (this school: 16.08%)
- **PS 368** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.08%)

### ela proficiency
- **ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS** — 0.4 mi away, 69% (this school: 30%)
- **PS 297 ABRAHAM STOCKTON** — 0.5 mi away, 45% (this school: 30%)
- **PS 56 LEWIS H LATIMER** — 0.7 mi away, 63% (this school: 30%)
- **EMBER CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 50% (this school: 30%)
- **PS 380 JOHN WAYNE ELEMENTARY** — 0.8 mi away, 51% (this school: 30%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 54 SAMUEL C BARNES** — 0.2 mi away, 34% (this school: 28%)
- **PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON** — 0.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 28%)
- **ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS** — 0.4 mi away, 67% (this school: 28%)
- **PS 25 EUBIE BLAKE SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 36% (this school: 28%)
- **PS 297 ABRAHAM STOCKTON** — 0.5 mi away, 58% (this school: 28%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-benjamin-banneker-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-benjamin-banneker-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-benjamin-banneker-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-benjamin-banneker-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-benjamin-banneker-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-benjamin-banneker-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-benjamin-banneker-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-benjamin-banneker-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-benjamin-banneker-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-256-benjamin-banneker-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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