Half Of Park Slope Schools Have Ventilation Problems: Report

Park Slope NY

27 August, 2020

10:05 AM

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PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — At least half of Park Slope's 17 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 Park Slope, at least 10 of the neighborhood's 17 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 14 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 coronavirus through 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 Park Slope: Park Slope Collegiate - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 2Supply fan deficiencies: 1Report PS 282 Park Slope - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1Supply fan deficiencies: 0Report PS 107 John W. Kimball - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0Supply fan deficiencies: Does not existReport MS 51 William Alexander - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1Supply fan deficiencies: 0Report The Maurice Sendak Community School - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0Supply fan deficiencies: Does not existReport PS 39 Henry Bristow - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0Supply fan deficiencies: Does not existReport PS 133 William A. Butler - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0Supply fan deficiencies: Does not existReport Magnet School of Math, Science and Design Technology - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0Supply fan deficiencies: 0Report MS 266 Park Place Community Middle School - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 0Supply fan deficiencies: Does not existReport JHS 88 Peter Rouget - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1Supply fan deficiencies: 0Report Millennium Brooklyn HS - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 2Supply fan deficiencies: 1Report PS 321 William Penn - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1Supply fan deficiencies: Does not existReport PS 124 Silas B. Dutcher - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1Supply fan deficiencies: Does not existReport New Voices School of Academic & Creative Arts - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 1Supply fan deficiencies: 1Report Cyberarts Studio Academy - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 2Supply fan deficiencies: 1Report Hellenic Classical Charter School - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: UnknownSupply fan deficiencies: UnkownCould not find inspection John Jay School for Law - Brooklyn Exhaust fan deficiencies: 2Supply fan deficiencies: 1Report Read more and view Chalkbeat's searchable database here. Patch reporters Gus Saltonstall and Nick Garber contributed to this report.