# VERITAS ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012206434`
- **School name**: VERITAS ACADEMY
- **Location**: FLUSHING, NY 11354
- **Address**: 35-01 UNION ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #25 (LEAID `3600122`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.76490, -73.82680
- **Phone**: (718)888-7530

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 653
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 83.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 2
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS ELP: 2
  - HS Core Performance: 3
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - HS Grad Rate: 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 87.0% (cohort of 171)
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 142)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 36.0% (220 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.7% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.3% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.8% (137 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**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 70.3%
- **Black/African American**: 13.3%
- **Asian**: 8.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.6% — 100 students
- **English Learners**: 8.3% — 50 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 39 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 37 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,466
- **Federal share**: $4,044
- **State + local share**: $23,422
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 602
### 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**: $42,750
- **Poverty rate**: 23.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.2%
- **Unemployment**: 7.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,768
- **Foreign-born residents**: 70.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.0 miles (STANTON CLEANERS AREA GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 47
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.48 miles (135 15 40TH ROAD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SOUTH ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.82155 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES** — 0.0 mi away, 2.22% (this school: 2.66%)
- **PS 214 CADWALLADER COLDEN** — 0.4 mi away, 0.88% (this school: 2.66%)
- **PS 242 LEONARD P STAVISKY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.66%)
- **PS 20 JOHN BOWNE** — 0.5 mi away, 1.38% (this school: 2.66%)
- **JHS 189 DANIEL CARTER BEARD** — 0.5 mi away, 2.26% (this school: 2.66%)

### graduation rate
- **QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES** — 0.0 mi away, 92% (this school: 87%)
- **TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 98% (this school: 87%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND BUSINESS** — 2.3 mi away, 92% (this school: 87%)
- **FRANCIS LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 90% (this school: 87%)
- **BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 97% (this school: 87%)

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