# FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VIII MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012005895`
- **School name**: FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VIII MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11239
- **Address**: 1400 PENNSYLVANIA AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19 (LEAID `3600120`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.64680, -73.88180
- **Phone**: (718)348-2465
- **Wikidata QID**: Q104129362

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 303
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.3%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 29.5% (83 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.0% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.5% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 30.1% (60 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**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 21.9%
- **Black/African American**: 2.6%
- **Asian**: 71.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 2.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 31.2% — 62 students
- **English Learners**: 3.5% — 7 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 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**: $44,059
- **Poverty rate**: 20.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.4%
- **Unemployment**: 15.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $925
- **Foreign-born residents**: 32.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.3 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 37
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.58 miles (402 SNEDIKER AVE BEVERLY S PLACE)

### 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**: 4.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SCIENCE AND MEDICINE MIDDLE SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.5 mi away, 2.46% (this school: 6.03%)
- **PS 279 HERMAN SCHREIBER** — 0.6 mi away, 4.41% (this school: 6.03%)
- **LEADERSHIP PREPARATORY CANARSIE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 5.28% (this school: 6.03%)
- **IS 211 JOHN WILSON** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.03%)
- **PS  4** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.03%)

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