# HIGH SCHOOL OF WORLD CULTURES

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-world-cultures-bronx

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009001767`
- **School name**: HIGH SCHOOL OF WORLD CULTURES
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10472
- **Address**: 1300 BOYNTON AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12 (LEAID `3600090`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.83185, -73.87861
- **Phone**: (718)860-8120
- **Wikidata QID**: Q16911498 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_of_World_Cultures

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 381
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 3
  - HS ELP: 3
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - HS Core Performance: 2
  - HS Grad Rate: 2
  - 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**: 78.0% (cohort of 91)
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 126)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 53.9% (159 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.9% (50 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 11.1% (43 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 44.2% (171 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**: 1.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 78.1%
- **Black/African American**: 5.3%
- **Asian**: 9.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 1.8% — 7 students
- **English Learners**: 96.1% — 372 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,362
- **Federal share**: $5,767
- **State + local share**: $25,596
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 388
### 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**: $47,628
- **Poverty rate**: 37.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.4%
- **Unemployment**: 9.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,320
- **Foreign-born residents**: 40.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.1 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 55
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.35 miles (BOONE AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KINGSTON CENTER AN0
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 11
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-29

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.17489 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **METROPOLITAN SOUNDVIEW HIGH SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.0 mi away, 6.22% (this school: 12.92%)
- **URBAN ASSEMBLY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE** — 0.0 mi away, 2.23% (this school: 12.92%)
- **MOTT HALL V** — 0.1 mi away, 2.75% (this school: 12.92%)
- **CINEMA SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.1 mi away, 6.81% (this school: 12.92%)
- **PS 195** — 0.1 mi away, 8.01% (this school: 12.92%)

### graduation rate
- **PAN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT MONROE** — 0.0 mi away, 87% (this school: 78%)
- **MOTT HALL V** — 0.1 mi away, 90% (this school: 78%)
- **CINEMA SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.1 mi away, 87% (this school: 78%)
- **EAST BRONX ACADEMY FOR THE FUTURE** — 0.6 mi away, 82% (this school: 78%)
- **WINGS ACADEMY** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 78%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-world-cultures-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-world-cultures-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-world-cultures-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-world-cultures-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-world-cultures-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-world-cultures-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-world-cultures-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-world-cultures-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-world-cultures-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-world-cultures-bronx/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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