# CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/cultural-academy-for-the-arts-and-sciences-brooklyn

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009606042`
- **School name**: CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11203
- **Address**: 5800 TILDEN AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 (LEAID `3600096`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.64819, -73.92224
- **Phone**: (718)968-6630
- **Wikidata QID**: Q105647461

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 296
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.1%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 75)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 55.0% (116 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.5% (26 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.9% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 53.3% (146 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**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 82.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.3% — 61 students
- **English Learners**: 12.4% — 34 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 32 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 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**: $78,929
- **Poverty rate**: 6.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.4%
- **Unemployment**: 10.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,425
- **Foreign-born residents**: 57.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.3 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 85
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.64 miles (WOLFF ALPORT IRVING AVENUE RIGHT OF WAY)

### 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**: 3.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 244 RICHARD R GREEN** — 0.2 mi away, 1.88% (this school: 9.49%)
- **BROOKLYN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 2.12% (this school: 9.49%)
- **IVY HILL PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 2.12% (this school: 9.49%)
- **PS 233 LANGSTON HUGHES** — 0.5 mi away, 3.12% (this school: 9.49%)
- **NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.5 mi away, 4.09% (this school: 9.49%)

### graduation rate
- **BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 89% (this school: 87%)
- **VICTORY COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 91% (this school: 87%)
- **ACADEMY FOR CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT** — 1.1 mi away, 92% (this school: 87%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR MEDICAL PROFESSIONS** — 1.3 mi away, 88% (this school: 87%)
- **LEADERSHIP PREPARATORY OCEAN HILL CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 92% (this school: 87%)

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