# MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008505121`
- **School name**: MS 301 PAUL L DUNBAR
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10456
- **Address**: 890 CAULDWELL AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8 (LEAID `3600085`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.82230, -73.90680
- **Phone**: (718)585-2950
- **Wikidata QID**: Q102257474

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 148
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Comprehensive Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 1
  - EM Growth: 1
  - overall_status: Comprehensive Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 30.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 43.9% (87 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.0% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 12.0% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 49.1% (82 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**: 2.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 48.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 46.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 37.1% — 62 students
- **English Learners**: 38.3% — 64 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 29 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $44,474
- **Federal share**: $6,612
- **State + local share**: $37,862
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 167
### 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**: $32,656
- **Poverty rate**: 41.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.6%
- **Unemployment**: 21.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,307
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 35.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.5 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 66
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.31 miles (BRONXCHESTER URBAN RENEWAL ARE SITE 1A)

### 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**: 6.83136 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS** — 0.2 mi away, 6.45% (this school: 8.98%)
- **NYC CHARTER HS - AECI** — 0.2 mi away, 3.08% (this school: 8.98%)
- **NEW VISIONS CHTR HS-ADV MA/SCI II** — 0.2 mi away, 1.46% (this school: 8.98%)
- **PS 17** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.98%)
- **BRILLA VERITAS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 4.74% (this school: 8.98%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS** — 0.2 mi away, 30% (this school: 26%)
- **ACADEMY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS** — 0.2 mi away, 32% (this school: 26%)
- **PS 157 GROVE HILL** — 0.2 mi away, 34% (this school: 26%)
- **BRILLA VERITAS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 48% (this school: 26%)
- **PS 130 ABRAM STEVENS HEWITT** — 0.4 mi away, 34% (this school: 26%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS** — 0.2 mi away, 48% (this school: 17.75%)
- **PS 157 GROVE HILL** — 0.2 mi away, 31% (this school: 17.75%)
- **BRILLA VERITAS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 17.75%)
- **PS 130 ABRAM STEVENS HEWITT** — 0.4 mi away, 55% (this school: 17.75%)
- **BRONX LATIN SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 44% (this school: 17.75%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-301-paul-l-dunbar-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-301-paul-l-dunbar-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-301-paul-l-dunbar-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-301-paul-l-dunbar-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-301-paul-l-dunbar-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-301-paul-l-dunbar-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-301-paul-l-dunbar-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-301-paul-l-dunbar-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-301-paul-l-dunbar-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-301-paul-l-dunbar-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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