St Teresa (Q) DOE School 50-13 44 St

How does St Teresa (Q) DOE School 50-13 44 St 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. St Teresa (Q) DOE School 50-13 44 St's ENERGY STAR score of 66 compares with an average of 64 across the 2,052 that report a score; it scores higher than 44% of them and lower than 54%. Its site EUI of 54.3 kBtu/ft² is about 11% below the average of 61.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 17% below the group average of 4.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 34,400 sq ft, it is about 66% below the average floor area of 101,338 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1928, 25 years earlier than 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 66 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 66 means the building performs better than about 66% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 66 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 9 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. St Teresa (Q) DOE School 50-13 44 St's 54.3 kBtu/ft² across 34,400 sq ft works out to about 1.9 billion Btu (547 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 88.5 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 181,058 kWh of electricity and 12,515 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires St Teresa (Q) DOE School 50-13 44 St to report its energy use?

St Teresa (Q) DOE School 50-13 44 St 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:65359792:2024). 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.