# PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012102501`
- **School name**: PS 137 RACHEL JEAN MITCHELL
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11233
- **Address**: 121 SARATOGA AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #23 (LEAID `3600121`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.68220, -73.91670
- **Phone**: (718)453-2926

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 145
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 4
  - 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 56.0% (98 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.7% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 28.0% (42 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 87.3% (131 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**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 73.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 55.3% — 83 students
- **English Learners**: 11.3% — 17 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $47,083
- **Federal share**: $9,831
- **State + local share**: $37,252
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 150
### 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**: $81,220
- **Poverty rate**: 24.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 39.4%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,466
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.1 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 138
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.43 miles (1901 1903 ATLANTIC AVENUE)

### 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**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.67%)
- **PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER** — 0.3 mi away, 6.02% (this school: 8.67%)
- **BROOKLYN LANDMARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 8.67%)
- **BROOKLYN ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLORATION SCHOOL (BEES)** — 0.3 mi away, 4.85% (this school: 8.67%)
- **PS 5 DR RONALD MCNAIR** — 0.4 mi away, 8.33% (this school: 8.67%)

### ela proficiency
- **EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II** — 0.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 24%)
- **PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER** — 0.3 mi away, 54% (this school: 24%)
- **PS 5 DR RONALD MCNAIR** — 0.4 mi away, 63% (this school: 24%)
- **PS/IS 45 HORACE E GREENE** — 0.5 mi away, 37% (this school: 24%)
- **PS 178 SAINT CLAIR MCKELWAY** — 0.5 mi away, 29% (this school: 24%)

### math proficiency
- **EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II** — 0.3 mi away, 85.2% (this school: 54%)
- **PS 40 GEORGE W CARVER** — 0.3 mi away, 73% (this school: 54%)
- **PS 5 DR RONALD MCNAIR** — 0.4 mi away, 74% (this school: 54%)
- **PS 21 CRISPUS ATTUCKS** — 0.5 mi away, 60% (this school: 54%)
- **EXCELLENCE GIRLS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 58.6% (this school: 54%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-137-rachel-jean-mitchell-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-137-rachel-jean-mitchell-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-137-rachel-jean-mitchell-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-137-rachel-jean-mitchell-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-137-rachel-jean-mitchell-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-137-rachel-jean-mitchell-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-137-rachel-jean-mitchell-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-137-rachel-jean-mitchell-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-137-rachel-jean-mitchell-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-137-rachel-jean-mitchell-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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