# BENJAMIN BANNEKER ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009102315`
- **School name**: BENJAMIN BANNEKER ACADEMY
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11238
- **Address**: 71-77 CLINTON AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #13 (LEAID `3600091`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.69550, -73.96890
- **Phone**: (718)797-3702
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4888240 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker_Academy
- **Founded**: 1987

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 854
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 56
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 2
  - HS CCCR: 4
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Weight Performance: 3
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS Grad Rate: 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 100.0% (cohort of 133)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 156)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 34.4% (302 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.6% (30 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.2% (27 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 52.1% (435 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**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.2%
- **Black/African American**: 4.0%
- **Asian**: 77.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.1% — 126 students
- **English Learners**: 0.7% — 6 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 90 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,604
- **Federal share**: $4,393
- **State + local share**: $21,211
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 835
### 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**: $160,471
- **Poverty rate**: 9.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 72.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,947
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.4 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 162
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.98 miles (370 JAY STREET)

### 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**: 6.89741 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **COMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 2.37% (this school: 3.59%)
- **COMPASS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.59%)
- **PS 270 JOHANN DEKALB** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.59%)
- **BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0.46% (this school: 3.59%)
- **PS 287 BAILEY K ASHFORD** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.59%)

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