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A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL
A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL is a four-year high school of high-enrollment scale in NEW YORK, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6, educateing 1,421 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL sits 113% bigger than that benchmark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 runs 45 schools in total, collectively educating 17,415 students. A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. Other groups include 32% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL has 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 41.6%; actual is 62.8%, +21.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for New York County put median household income runs about $103,931, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
PS 161 PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 47.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Five-year trend. A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,379 (now 1,421). Over the same period, the Black share grew from 28% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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