# PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS:  A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360010105875`
- **School name**: PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS:  A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL
- **Location**: SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, NY 11413
- **Address**: 143-10 SPRINGFIELD BLVD
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 (LEAID `3600101`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.66840, -73.75780
- **Phone**: (718)949-8405
- **Wikidata QID**: Q105033865

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 521
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.5%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 93)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 33.6% (181 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.6% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.9% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 25.3% (132 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**: 1.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.4%
- **Black/African American**: 2.4%
- **Asian**: 82.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 68.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.0% — 94 students
- **English Learners**: 1.7% — 9 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 54 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## 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**: $103,550
- **Poverty rate**: 8.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.7%
- **Unemployment**: 7.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,001
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.8 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.08 miles (113 50 FARMERS BOULEVARD)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **EXCELSIOR PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 3.53% (this school: 3.65%)
- **QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 3.62% (this school: 3.65%)
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS** — 1.0 mi away, 1.17% (this school: 3.65%)
- **PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE** — 1.0 mi away, 3.32% (this school: 3.65%)
- **GORDON PARKS SCHOOL (THE)** — 1.2 mi away, 2.58% (this school: 3.65%)

### graduation rate
- **EXCELSIOR PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 87% (this school: 82%)
- **AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 90% (this school: 82%)
- **HS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY** — 1.8 mi away, 87% (this school: 82%)
- **EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN III** — 1.9 mi away, 91% (this school: 82%)
- **MATH/SCIENCE RESEARCH/TECH MAGNET** — 2.1 mi away, 86% (this school: 82%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/preparatory-academy-for-writers-a-college-board-school-springfield-gardens
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/preparatory-academy-for-writers-a-college-board-school-springfield-gardens/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/preparatory-academy-for-writers-a-college-board-school-springfield-gardens/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/preparatory-academy-for-writers-a-college-board-school-springfield-gardens/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/preparatory-academy-for-writers-a-college-board-school-springfield-gardens/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/preparatory-academy-for-writers-a-college-board-school-springfield-gardens/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/preparatory-academy-for-writers-a-college-board-school-springfield-gardens/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/preparatory-academy-for-writers-a-college-board-school-springfield-gardens/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/preparatory-academy-for-writers-a-college-board-school-springfield-gardens/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/preparatory-academy-for-writers-a-college-board-school-springfield-gardens/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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