# CATHERINE & COUNT BASIE MIDDLE SCHOOL 72

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010002297`
- **School name**: CATHERINE & COUNT BASIE MIDDLE SCHOOL 72
- **Location**: JAMAICA, NY 11434
- **Address**: 133-25 GUY R BREWER BLVD
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #28 (LEAID `3600100`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.67500, -73.77570
- **Phone**: (718)723-6200
- **Wikidata QID**: Q105021832

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 329
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.5%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 42.8% (104 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.2% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.5% (25 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 71.3% (236 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**: 6.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.3%
- **Black/African American**: 7.3%
- **Asian**: 67.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.8%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 32.0% — 106 students
- **English Learners**: 7.8% — 26 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 51 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## 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**: $52,973
- **Poverty rate**: 20.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.2%
- **Unemployment**: 13.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,124
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.8 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.76 miles (113 50 FARMERS BOULEVARD)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ROCHDALE EARLY ADVANTAGE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.23%)
- **PS 223 LYNDON B JOHNSON** — 0.8 mi away, 3.03% (this school: 4.23%)
- **HS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY** — 0.8 mi away, 2.59% (this school: 4.23%)
- **EXCELSIOR PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 3.53% (this school: 4.23%)
- **PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS:  A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 3.65% (this school: 4.23%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/catherine-count-basie-middle-school-72-jamaica
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/catherine-count-basie-middle-school-72-jamaica/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/catherine-count-basie-middle-school-72-jamaica/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/catherine-count-basie-middle-school-72-jamaica/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/catherine-count-basie-middle-school-72-jamaica/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/catherine-count-basie-middle-school-72-jamaica/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/catherine-count-basie-middle-school-72-jamaica/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/catherine-count-basie-middle-school-72-jamaica/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/catherine-count-basie-middle-school-72-jamaica/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/catherine-count-basie-middle-school-72-jamaica/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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