# JHS 234 ARTHUR W CUNNINGHAM

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015302748`
- **School name**: JHS 234 ARTHUR W CUNNINGHAM
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11229
- **Address**: 1875 E 17TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #22 (LEAID `3600153`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.60440, -73.95520
- **Phone**: (718)645-1334

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,447
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 109
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Growth: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - 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 30.9% (436 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.8% (39 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.7% (305 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**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.3%
- **Black/African American**: 26.9%
- **Asian**: 11.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 44.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.5% — 274 students
- **English Learners**: 13.3% — 186 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 120 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 49 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 26 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,268
- **Federal share**: $3,709
- **State + local share**: $23,559
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,403
### 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**: $69,063
- **Poverty rate**: 15.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.4%
- **Unemployment**: 2.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,614
- **Foreign-born residents**: 51.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.6 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 32
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.73 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**: 4.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 255 BARBARA REING SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 2.22% (this school: 2.78%)
- **PS 153 HOMECREST** — 0.3 mi away, 2.06% (this school: 2.78%)
- **JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 2.28% (this school: 2.78%)
- **PS 206 JOSEPH F LAMB** — 0.6 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 2.78%)
- **PS 215 MORRIS H WEISS** — 0.8 mi away, 2.1% (this school: 2.78%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD** — 0.9 mi away, 61% (this school: 57%)
- **PS 222 KATHERINE R SNYDER** — 1.1 mi away, 67% (this school: 57%)
- **IS 228 DAVID A BOODY** — 1.2 mi away, 64% (this school: 57%)
- **IS 98 BAY ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 85% (this school: 57%)
- **PS 277 GERRITSEN BEACH** — 1.5 mi away, 60% (this school: 57%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 254 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD** — 0.9 mi away, 78% (this school: 74%)
- **PS 222 KATHERINE R SNYDER** — 1.1 mi away, 75% (this school: 74%)
- **IS 98 BAY ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 95.8% (this school: 74%)
- **BROOKLYN SCHOOL OF INQUIRY** — 1.7 mi away, 94.6% (this school: 74%)
- **PS 253** — 1.7 mi away, 81% (this school: 74%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-234-arthur-w-cunningham-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-234-arthur-w-cunningham-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-234-arthur-w-cunningham-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-234-arthur-w-cunningham-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-234-arthur-w-cunningham-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-234-arthur-w-cunningham-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-234-arthur-w-cunningham-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-234-arthur-w-cunningham-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-234-arthur-w-cunningham-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/jhs-234-arthur-w-cunningham-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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