# BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR WRITING AND COMMUNICATION ARTS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008805681`
- **School name**: BRONX HIGH SCHOOL FOR WRITING AND COMMUNICATION ARTS
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10467
- **Address**: 800 E GUN HILL RD
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11 (LEAID `3600088`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.87531, -73.86160
- **Phone**: (718)944-5660
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5756602 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_for_Writing_and_Communication_Arts
- **Founded**: 2004

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: N/A
- **Teachers (FTE)**: N/A

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 67.0% (cohort of 81)
- **2019**: 72.0% (cohort of 94)
- **2018**: 62.0% (cohort of 87)
- **2017**: 67.0% (cohort of 99)
- **2016**: 72.0% (cohort of 106)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 34.0% (87 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.6% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 15.7% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 104.0% (206 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**: 49.8%
- **Black/African American**: 1.9%
- **Asian**: 42.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.8%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 35.4% — 70 students
- **English Learners**: 24.2% — 48 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 35 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### 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**: $69,972
- **Poverty rate**: 13.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.8%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,684
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.3 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 48
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.26 miles (707 EAST 211TH STREET)

### 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**: 6.43167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LEADERS OF TOMORROW** — 0.4 mi away, 4.19% (this school: 5.56%)
- **PS 76 BENNINGTON SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.4 mi away, 3.92% (this school: 5.56%)
- **PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS** — 0.7 mi away, 5.11% (this school: 5.56%)
- **BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 1.49% (this school: 5.56%)
- **PS 121 THROOP** — 0.8 mi away, 4.19% (this school: 5.56%)

### graduation rate
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS** — 0.0 mi away, 82% (this school: 67%)
- **BRONX AEROSPACE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 92% (this school: 67%)
- **BRONX LAB SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 77% (this school: 67%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL OF COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY** — 0.0 mi away, 82% (this school: 67%)
- **BRONX ACADEMY OF HEALTH CAREERS** — 0.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 67%)

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