# DEMOCRACY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/democracy-preparatory-charter-school-new-york

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015805847`
- **School name**: DEMOCRACY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10037
- **Address**: 2230 5TH AVE
- **District**: DEMOCRACY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3600158`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 40.81329, -73.93777
- **Phone**: (212)281-3061

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 583
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 48
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 83.5%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 68)
- **2019**: 82.0% (cohort of 67)
- **2018**: 87.0% (cohort of 82)
- **2017**: 67.0% (cohort of 82)
- **2016**: 87.0% (cohort of 75)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 53

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 45.8% (328 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.0% (37 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.8% (116 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 31.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.2%
- **Asian**: 62.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.2% — 118 students
- **English Learners**: 5.2% — 32 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,838,565

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $80,909
- **Poverty rate**: 19.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 49.8%
- **Unemployment**: 9.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,051
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.8 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 108
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.38 miles (WEST 135TH STREET GARBAGE MTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUBURBANS COMMUNITY MHP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.70496 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **GLOBAL COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 5.28% (this school: 6.01%)
- **CAPITAL PREPARATORY (CP) HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 3.72% (this school: 6.01%)
- **ST. HOPE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 4.3% (this school: 6.01%)
- **HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY II CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 2.94% (this school: 6.01%)
- **PS 138** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.01%)

### graduation rate
- **THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE** — 0.4 mi away, 87% (this school: 82%)
- **MOTT HALL HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 86% (this school: 82%)
- **DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL MOTT HAVEN** — 0.6 mi away, 95% (this school: 82%)
- **FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY** — 0.8 mi away, 85% (this school: 82%)
- **LABORATORY SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND TECHNOLOGY (THE):  X223** — 0.9 mi away, 92% (this school: 82%)

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