District 16: chronic absenteeism by school

Brooklyn, New York City · 22 schools

46.5%

chronically absent in 2024-25

33.3%

all NYC public schools

of 22 schools lowered their rate from 2023-24

The district rate fell 2.9 points from 2023-24, and was 45.4% in 2018-19, before the pandemic.

Schools in District 16

School	2024-25	Change
Boys and Girls High School16K455	47.8%	down 1.4
Brighter Choice Community School16K627	54.4%	up 2.2
Brooklyn Brownstone School16K628	19.8%	down 3.4
Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology16K498	45.8%	down 7.9
M.S. 035 Stephen Decatur16K035	33.5%	down 5.5
M.S. 267 Math, Science & Technology16K267	42.8%	steady
Madiba Prep Middle School16K681	49.3%	up 5.2
Nelson Mandela High School16K765	48.4%	down 7.0
P.S. 005 Dr. Ronald McNair16K005	45.6%	down 1.1
P.S. 021 Crispus Attucks16K021	44.7%	down 2.0
P.S. 025 Eubie Blake School16K025	60.0%	down 3.8
P.S. 026 Jesse Owens16K026	41.9%	down 6.6
P.S. 040 George W. Carver16K040	32.7%	up 3.9
P.S. 081 Thaddeus Stevens16K081	53.4%	down 7.1
P.S. 243K- The Weeksville School16K243	44.4%	down 4.1
P.S. 262 El Hajj Malik El Shabazz Elementary School16K262	38.7%	down 0.8
P.S. 308 Clara Cardwell16K308	49.1%	down 2.5
P.S. 309 The George E. Wibecan Preparatory Academy16K309	60.1%	down 2.0
P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods16K335	56.7%	down 7.3
The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance16K688	64.9%	up 2.0
The Brooklyn Green School16K898	32.3%	down 5.9
Whitelaw Reid Academy of Arts and Business16K057	40.2%	down 8.4

District 16 by year

Year	District	NYC
2018-19	45.4%	26.5%
2019-20	42.6%	25.1%
2020-21	36.0%	29.7%
2021-22	55.6%	40.4%
2022-23	49.4%	36.2%
2023-24	49.4%	34.8%
2024-25	46.5%	33.3%

▼ and ▲ show the change in percentage points from 2023-24. Source: NYC Public Schools, End-of-Year Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism Data. The district rate includes transfer schools, which the school-level data leaves out.

Every absence followed up, across District 16.

BrainBridge gives each school’s attendance team a daily follow-up list from the ATS file, family texts from each staff member’s own line, and a weekly meeting agenda, with the records A-210 asks for.

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