85 - St Jude - Inwood Academy - Parent Property

How does 85 - St Jude - Inwood Academy - Parent Property compare with other K-12 school buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 2,301 K-12 school buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. 85 - St Jude - Inwood Academy - Parent Property's ENERGY STAR score of 31 compares with an average of 64 across the 2,052 that report a score; it scores higher than 14% of them and lower than 85%. Its site EUI of 99.8 kBtu/ft² is about 63% above the average of 61.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 8.4 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 74% above the group average of 4.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 48,286 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 101,338 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1955 construction date is close to the group's average year built (1954). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 6,548 K-12 school buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 52.7 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 31 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: a score of 31 means the building performs better than about 31% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 31 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 44 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In New York City, 43% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. 85 - St Jude - Inwood Academy - Parent Property's 99.8 kBtu/ft² across 48,286 sq ft works out to about 4.8 billion Btu (1,412 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 142.6 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 330,734 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires 85 - St Jude - Inwood Academy - Parent Property to report its energy use?

85 - St Jude - Inwood Academy - Parent Property reports under Local Law 84 (LL84), the legal basis of New York City's Energy and Water Data Disclosure program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2024 disclosure (source record nyc:48887893:2024). Under Local Law 97, buildings over 25,000 sq ft face carbon caps with fines of $268 per metric ton of CO₂e over the limit, phasing in from 2024.