# BUSHWICK LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009705562`
- **School name**: BUSHWICK LEADERS HIGH SCHOOL FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11221
- **Address**: 797 BUSHWICK AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #32 (LEAID `3600097`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.69927, -73.90206
- **Phone**: (718)919-4212
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5001594 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick_Leaders_High_School_for_Academic_Excellence
- **Founded**: 2002

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 358
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.6%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 84.5% (cohort of 59)
- **2019**: 77.0% (cohort of 62)
- **2018**: 72.0% (cohort of 72)
- **2017**: 72.0% (cohort of 73)
- **2016**: 77.0% (cohort of 70)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 66.2% (241 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.6% (57 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 9.3% (32 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 47.1% (162 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**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 79.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 16.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.2% — 73 students
- **English Learners**: 21.8% — 75 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 45 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 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**: $108,417
- **Poverty rate**: 7.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,796
- **Foreign-born residents**: 52.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.5 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 134
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.47 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL CORP PARCEL 1)

### 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**: 1.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **JOSEPH F QUINN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL 77** — 0.0 mi away, 3.99% (this school: 16.57%)
- **PS 239** — 0.1 mi away, 5.61% (this school: 16.57%)
- **ROBERT E PEARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.57%)
- **PS 68 CAMBRIDGE** — 0.3 mi away, 4.63% (this school: 16.57%)
- **PS 88 SENECA** — 0.5 mi away, 1.02% (this school: 16.57%)

### graduation rate
- **ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP** — 0.5 mi away, 87% (this school: 84.5%)
- **BROOKLYN SCHOOL FOR MATH AND RESEARCH (THE)** — 0.5 mi away, 87% (this school: 84.5%)
- **BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY** — 1.2 mi away, 92% (this school: 84.5%)
- **EBC HIGH SCHOOL FOR PUBLIC SERVICE-BUSHWICK** — 1.5 mi away, 87% (this school: 84.5%)
- **EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II** — 1.6 mi away, 93% (this school: 84.5%)

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