# PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360011902445`
- **School name**: PS 120 CARLOS TAPIA
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11206
- **Address**: 18 BEAVER ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 (LEAID `3600119`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.70060, -73.93780
- **Phone**: (718)455-1000

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 289
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - 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 50.0% (174 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.5% (51 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 19.2% (56 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 45.7% (133 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**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 72.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 20.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 30.6% — 89 students
- **English Learners**: 21.6% — 63 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $34,799
- **Federal share**: $4,580
- **State + local share**: $30,219
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 291
### 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**: $95,330
- **Poverty rate**: 19.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 50.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,565
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.1 miles (NEWTOWN CREEK)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 14
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 163
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.33 miles (219 MCKIBBIN STREET)

### 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**: 0.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **WILLIAMSBURG CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 5.81% (this school: 17.53%)
- **PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN** — 0.3 mi away, 4.85% (this school: 17.53%)
- **PS 145 ANDREW JACKSON** — 0.3 mi away, 17.12% (this school: 17.53%)
- **PS 59 THE DAWN BEST SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 4.32% (this school: 17.53%)
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BED STUY 2** — 0.4 mi away, 3.28% (this school: 17.53%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 36%)
- **PS 297 ABRAHAM STOCKTON** — 0.6 mi away, 45% (this school: 36%)
- **MS 582** — 0.6 mi away, 51% (this school: 36%)
- **IS 318 EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS** — 0.6 mi away, 62% (this school: 36%)
- **PS 147 ISSAC REMSEN** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 36%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN** — 0.3 mi away, 45% (this school: 40%)
- **PS 297 ABRAHAM STOCKTON** — 0.6 mi away, 58% (this school: 40%)
- **MS 582** — 0.6 mi away, 44.8% (this school: 40%)
- **IS 318 EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS** — 0.6 mi away, 72% (this school: 40%)
- **PS 250 GEORGE H LINDSAY** — 0.6 mi away, 47% (this school: 40%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-120-carlos-tapia-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-120-carlos-tapia-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-120-carlos-tapia-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-120-carlos-tapia-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-120-carlos-tapia-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-120-carlos-tapia-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-120-carlos-tapia-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-120-carlos-tapia-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-120-carlos-tapia-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-120-carlos-tapia-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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