# ESSEX STREET ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007705623`
- **School name**: ESSEX STREET ACADEMY
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10002
- **Address**: 350 GRAND ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (LEAID `3600077`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.71740, -73.98940
- **Phone**: (212)475-4773
- **Wikidata QID**: Q105206877

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 366
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 63.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 2
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS Weight Performance: 4
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS Grad Rate: 3
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 94.0% (cohort of 81)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 67)
- **2019**: 87.0% (cohort of 72)
- **2018**: 87.0% (cohort of 85)
- **2017**: 82.0% (cohort of 80)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 45.6% (170 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.5% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 41.6% (148 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**: 0.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 43.2%
- **Black/African American**: 7.8%
- **Asian**: 27.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 15.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 4.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 25.0% — 89 students
- **English Learners**: 3.4% — 12 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 52 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,698
- **Federal share**: $4,083
- **State + local share**: $24,615
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 355
### 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**: $79,973
- **Poverty rate**: 14.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 51.3%
- **Unemployment**: 6.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,066
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.5 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 163
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.34 miles (VERNAM BARBADOES BASINS)

### 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**: 7.65041 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN** — 0.1 mi away, 0.44% (this school: 1.97%)
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.97%)
- **PS 184 SHUANG WEN** — 0.5 mi away, 0.68% (this school: 1.97%)
- **PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO** — 0.5 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 1.97%)
- **NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0.89% (this school: 1.97%)

### graduation rate
- **NEW DESIGN HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 95% (this school: 94%)
- **UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 99% (this school: 94%)
- **EAST SIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 98% (this school: 94%)
- **NYC ISCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 98% (this school: 94%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICES** — 1.1 mi away, 97% (this school: 94%)

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