# MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009502262`
- **School name**: MS 61 DR GLADSTONE H ATWELL
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11225
- **Address**: 400 EMPIRE BLVD
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17 (LEAID `3600095`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.66380, -73.94840
- **Phone**: (718)774-1002
- **Wikidata QID**: Q104128942

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 286
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.2%

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 43.1% (214 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.8% (41 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 10.9% (35 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 79.4% (254 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**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 83.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 88.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 43.4% — 139 students
- **English Learners**: 13.1% — 42 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 56 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 33 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $38,935
- **Federal share**: $8,605
- **State + local share**: $30,331
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 320
### 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**: $102,868
- **Poverty rate**: 19.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.4%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,623
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.4 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 120
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.38 miles (BUSHWICK HOUSING SITES 1 2)

### 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**: 8.36016 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS** — 0.1 mi away, 1.15% (this school: 12.81%)
- **MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 1.47% (this school: 12.81%)
- **PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE** — 0.4 mi away, 2.4% (this school: 12.81%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR PUBLIC SERVICE-HEROES OF TOMORROW** — 0.4 mi away, 8.71% (this school: 12.81%)
- **BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL ARTS** — 0.4 mi away, 5.17% (this school: 12.81%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE** — 0.4 mi away, 62% (this school: 36%)
- **EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 64% (this school: 36%)
- **EBBETS FIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 45% (this school: 36%)
- **NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 42% (this school: 36%)
- **PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 36%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE** — 0.4 mi away, 77% (this school: 40.25%)
- **EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 40.25%)
- **PS 375 JACKIE ROBINSON SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 45% (this school: 40.25%)
- **PS 221 TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE** — 0.6 mi away, 45% (this school: 40.25%)
- **PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 56% (this school: 40.25%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-61-dr-gladstone-h-atwell-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-61-dr-gladstone-h-atwell-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-61-dr-gladstone-h-atwell-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-61-dr-gladstone-h-atwell-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-61-dr-gladstone-h-atwell-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-61-dr-gladstone-h-atwell-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-61-dr-gladstone-h-atwell-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-61-dr-gladstone-h-atwell-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-61-dr-gladstone-h-atwell-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ms-61-dr-gladstone-h-atwell-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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