# IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015202792`
- **School name**: IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLARO
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11214
- **Address**: 8787 24TH AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (LEAID `3600152`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.59460, -73.99390
- **Phone**: (718)996-6706
- **Wikidata QID**: Q104783714

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,198
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 91
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.0%

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.7% (423 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (25 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 20.4% (251 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**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 25.2%
- **Black/African American**: 41.0%
- **Asian**: 5.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 26.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 86.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.5% — 240 students
- **English Learners**: 18.9% — 233 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 104 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 40 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,337
- **Federal share**: $3,681
- **State + local share**: $24,656
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,232
### 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**: $65,000
- **Poverty rate**: 21.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.3%
- **Unemployment**: 6.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,718
- **Foreign-born residents**: 59.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.0 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 29
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.07 miles (1814 CONEY ISLAND AVE)

### 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**: 7.19846 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 101 VERRAZANO (THE)** — 0.2 mi away, 0.27% (this school: 2.03%)
- **HEBREW LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL 2** — 0.6 mi away, 1.92% (this school: 2.03%)
- **PS 97 HIGHLAWN (THE)** — 0.6 mi away, 0.57% (this school: 2.03%)
- **PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY** — 0.7 mi away, 1.39% (this school: 2.03%)
- **PS 200 BENSON SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 1.78% (this school: 2.03%)

### ela proficiency
- **BROOKLYN SCHOOL OF INQUIRY** — 0.9 mi away, 88% (this school: 55%)
- **IS 228 DAVID A BOODY** — 1.0 mi away, 64% (this school: 55%)
- **PS 163 BATH BEACH** — 1.1 mi away, 74% (this school: 55%)
- **PS 247** — 1.3 mi away, 64% (this school: 55%)
- **PS 205 CLARION** — 1.4 mi away, 61% (this school: 55%)

### math proficiency
- **BROOKLYN SCHOOL OF INQUIRY** — 0.9 mi away, 94.6% (this school: 65.75%)
- **IS 228 DAVID A BOODY** — 1.0 mi away, 73.4% (this school: 65.75%)
- **PS 163 BATH BEACH** — 1.1 mi away, 90.4% (this school: 65.75%)
- **PS 247** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 65.75%)
- **PS 205 CLARION** — 1.4 mi away, 75% (this school: 65.75%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-281-joseph-b-cavallaro-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-281-joseph-b-cavallaro-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-281-joseph-b-cavallaro-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-281-joseph-b-cavallaro-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-281-joseph-b-cavallaro-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-281-joseph-b-cavallaro-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-281-joseph-b-cavallaro-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-281-joseph-b-cavallaro-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-281-joseph-b-cavallaro-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/is-281-joseph-b-cavallaro-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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