# PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009602750`
- **School name**: PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOL
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11203
- **Address**: 525 LENOX RD
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #18 (LEAID `3600096`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.65500, -73.94070
- **Phone**: (718)773-4869

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 666
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 42
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.2%

## 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: 4
  - 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 15.0% (166 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.0% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 30.7% (197 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**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.3%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 90.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.7% — 101 students
- **English Learners**: 2.6% — 17 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 34 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,252
- **Federal share**: $5,779
- **State + local share**: $25,472
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 642
### 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**: $52,250
- **Poverty rate**: 18.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,488
- **Foreign-born residents**: 50.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.1 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 102
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.59 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**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 141** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.25%)
- **FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.25%)
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS** — 0.9 mi away, 1.15% (this school: 1.25%)
- **CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 1.25%)
- **PS 243 WEEKSVILLE SCHOOL (THE)** — 1.5 mi away, 1.21% (this school: 1.25%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE** — 0.4 mi away, 62% (this school: 48%)
- **EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 64% (this school: 48%)
- **KINGS COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 56% (this school: 48%)
- **PS 268 EMMA LAZARUS** — 0.7 mi away, 73% (this school: 48%)
- **PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY** — 0.9 mi away, 76% (this school: 48%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE** — 0.4 mi away, 77% (this school: 56%)
- **EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 56%)
- **KINGS COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 80.2% (this school: 56%)
- **PS 268 EMMA LAZARUS** — 0.7 mi away, 86% (this school: 56%)
- **PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY** — 0.9 mi away, 64% (this school: 56%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-235-janice-marie-knight-school-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-235-janice-marie-knight-school-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-235-janice-marie-knight-school-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-235-janice-marie-knight-school-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-235-janice-marie-knight-school-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-235-janice-marie-knight-school-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-235-janice-marie-knight-school-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-235-janice-marie-knight-school-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-235-janice-marie-knight-school-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-235-janice-marie-knight-school-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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