# MS 129 ACADEMY FOR INDEPENDENT LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009002477`
- **School name**: MS 129 ACADEMY FOR INDEPENDENT LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10460
- **Address**: 2055 MAPES AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #12 (LEAID `3600090`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.84590, -73.88640
- **Phone**: (718)933-5976
- **Wikidata QID**: Q103813777

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 230
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.9%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 46.8% (228 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.5% (38 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 17.1% (42 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 73.5% (180 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**: 67.5%
- **Black/African American**: 3.5%
- **Asian**: 26.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 62.0% — 152 students
- **English Learners**: 26.9% — 66 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 57 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 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**: $22,791
- **Poverty rate**: 31.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.9%
- **Unemployment**: 9.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,361
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 31.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.1 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 55
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.24 miles (2180 PROSPECT AVE)

### 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**: 6.43167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREPARATORY ACADEMY III** — 0.0 mi away, 6.37% (this school: 15.51%)
- **SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND APPLIED LEARNING (THE)** — 0.0 mi away, 15.21% (this school: 15.51%)
- **COLIBRI COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.1 mi away, 11.2% (this school: 15.51%)
- **PS 67 MOHEGAN SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 6.27% (this school: 15.51%)
- **PS 57 CRESCENT** — 0.2 mi away, 9.83% (this school: 15.51%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-129-academy-for-independent-learning-and-leadership-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-129-academy-for-independent-learning-and-leadership-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-129-academy-for-independent-learning-and-leadership-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-129-academy-for-independent-learning-and-leadership-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-129-academy-for-independent-learning-and-leadership-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-129-academy-for-independent-learning-and-leadership-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-129-academy-for-independent-learning-and-leadership-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-129-academy-for-independent-learning-and-leadership-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-129-academy-for-independent-learning-and-leadership-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-129-academy-for-independent-learning-and-leadership-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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