# RACHEL CARSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR COASTAL STUDIES

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360015205826`
- **School name**: RACHEL CARSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR COASTAL STUDIES
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11224
- **Address**: 521 WEST AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (LEAID `3600152`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.58271, -73.97220
- **Phone**: (718)265-0329
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7279186 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson_High_School_for_Coastal_Studies

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 619
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 45
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.3%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 169)
- **2019**: 77.0% (cohort of 156)
- **2018**: 77.0% (cohort of 158)
- **2017**: 67.0% (cohort of 130)
- **2016**: 82.0% (cohort of 136)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 36.5% (209 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.7% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 42.8% (252 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**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 19.9%
- **Black/African American**: 18.8%
- **Asian**: 11.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 46.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 2.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.1% — 124 students
- **English Learners**: 15.6% — 92 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 86 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 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**: $50,559
- **Poverty rate**: 13.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 54.6%
- **Unemployment**: 10.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,083
- **Foreign-born residents**: 61.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.9 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.09 miles (2975 AVENUE U)

### 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**: 7.19846 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 100 CONEY ISLAND SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.4 mi away, 1.49% (this school: 1.87%)
- **PS 370** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.87%)
- **PS 216 ARTURO TOSCANINI** — 0.6 mi away, 1.52% (this school: 1.87%)
- **PS 721 BROOKLYN OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING CENTER** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.87%)
- **PS 212 LADY DEBORAH MOODY** — 0.8 mi away, 1.39% (this school: 1.87%)

### graduation rate
- **BROOKLYN STUDIO SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 92% (this school: 87%)
- **LEON M GOLDSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES** — 2.0 mi away, 97% (this school: 87%)
- **JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 88% (this school: 87%)
- **MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.6 mi away, 96% (this school: 87%)
- **BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 89% (this school: 87%)

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