# BRILLA VERITAS CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360116506617`
- **School name**: BRILLA VERITAS CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10455
- **Address**: 600 E 156TH ST
- **District**: BRILLA VERITAS CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3601165`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 40.81877, -73.90936
- **Phone**: (347)273-8439

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 569
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 3
  - 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 39.0% (143 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.7% (24 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 4
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 61.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 37.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 3.2% — 16 students
- **English Learners**: 8.7% — 44 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,119
- **Federal share**: $1,399
- **State + local share**: $29,720
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 506
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,694,570

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $35,892
- **Poverty rate**: 38.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.5%
- **Unemployment**: 15.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,111
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 30.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.3 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 73
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.14 miles (BRONXCHESTER URBAN RENEWAL ARE SITE 1A)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KINGSTON CENTER AN0
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 11
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-29

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.83136 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SECONDARY SCHOOL-BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE** — 0.1 mi away, 0.54% (this school: 4.74%)
- **PS 17** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.74%)
- **NYC CHARTER HS - AECI** — 0.2 mi away, 3.08% (this school: 4.74%)
- **HOSTOS-LINCOLN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE** — 0.3 mi away, 4.69% (this school: 4.74%)
- **ZETA CHARTER SCHOOL -SOUTH BRONX** — 0.3 mi away, 4.52% (this school: 4.74%)

### ela proficiency
- **ZETA CHARTER SCHOOL -SOUTH BRONX** — 0.3 mi away, 70% (this school: 48%)
- **KIPP ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 61% (this school: 48%)
- **PHAROS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 67% (this school: 48%)
- **ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 77% (this school: 48%)
- **SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 87% (this school: 48%)

### math proficiency
- **ZETA CHARTER SCHOOL -SOUTH BRONX** — 0.3 mi away, 83% (this school: 65.5%)
- **KIPP ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 75.8% (this school: 65.5%)
- **PHAROS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 85.2% (this school: 65.5%)
- **ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 89% (this school: 65.5%)
- **SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 99.75% (this school: 65.5%)

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