Half Of Bed-Stuy Schools Have Ventilation Problems: Report
BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — More than half of Bed-Stuy's 51 public schools have some sort of ventilation problems, a potential roadblock in sending kids back for classes amid the coronavirus pandemic, a new report shows.
Education news site Chalkbeat has compiled inspection records for 1,700 of the city's schools as ventilation inspectors set out to determine whether their facilities are safe enough to allow students to return to class next month.
The report finds that more than 1,000 of the city's schools have documented ventilation problems.
In Bed-Stuy, at least 29 of the neighborhood's 51 public schools had either problems with the air supply system — which brings fresh air inside the building — or the exhaust system, which brings stale air outside.
That number could also be even higher given that seven of the schools did not have one of the inspection reports.
The reports are based on inspections between fall 2018 and summer 2019. Another round of inspections was conducted this summer but has not been released publicly.
Good ventilation lowers the risk of transmitting the coronavirusthrough the air, and Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that inspectors had already been deployed, checking every classroom in every school to ensure that windows can open and the supply and exhaust fans are working properly before students return Sept. 10.
But the new report shows the immense scale of the problem, and backs up claims by some teachers and principals that their school buildings were poorly ventilated and ill-equipped to welcome back students during the pandemic.
Here are the results for Bed-Stuy:
Bedford Stuyvesant Collegiate Charter School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: Unknown
Supply fan deficiencies: Unknown
Could not find inspection
Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant Uncommon Prep Charter Academy - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Success Academy Charter School - Bed-Stuy 1 - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Success Academy Charter School - Bed-Stuy 2 - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Brighter Choice Community School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
PS 25 Eubie Blake School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Brooklyn Academy High School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
PS 262 El Hajj Malik El Shabazz Elementary School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Brooklyn Brownstone School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 1
PS 3 The Bedford Village - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Madiba Prep Middle School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Brooklyn Charter School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
Benjamin Banneker Academy - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
PS 21 Crispus Attucks - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
PS 368 - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
PS 308 Clara Cardwell - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 2
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
PS/IS 137 Rachel Jean Mitchell - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
PS 54 Samuel C. Barnes - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 2
Supply fan deficiencies: 1
PS/IS 155 Nicholas Herkimer - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
PS 297 Abraham Stockton - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
PS 93 William H. Prescott - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
PS 40 George W. Carver - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 2
Supply fan deficiencies: 1
Academy of Arts and Letters - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Bedford Academy High School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
Brooklyn East Collegiate Charter School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
New Dawn Charter High School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 2
Supply fan deficiencies: 1
PS 23 Carter G. Woodson - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
PS 373 Brooklyn Transition Center - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
PS 380 John Wayne Elementary - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
PS 140 - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
PS/IS 157 The Benjamin Franklin Health & Science - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
Urban Dove Charter School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: Unknown
Supply fan deficiencies: Unknown
Could not find inspection
Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: Unknown
Supply fan deficiencies: Unknown
Could not find inspection
Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
EMBER Charter School for Mindful Education, Innovation and Transformation - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 2
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Excellence Boys Charter School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
Excellence Girls Charter School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
La Cima Charter School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
MS 35 Stephen Decatur - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 1
MS 267 Math, Science & Technology - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: Does not exist
PS 5 Dr. Ronald McNair - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
PS 26 Jesse Owens - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
PS 44 Marcus Garvey - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
PS 59 William Floyd - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
PS 81 Thaddeus Stevens - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
PS 309 The George E. Wibecan Preparatory Academy - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Unity Prep Charter School - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Whitelaw Reid Academy of Arts and Business - Brooklyn
Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0
Supply fan deficiencies: 0
Read more and view Chalkbeat's searchable database here.
Patch reporters Gus Saltonstall and Nick Garber contributed to this report.
This article originally appeared on the Bed-Stuy Patch