ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in ALBANY, New York, part of ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 378 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 16 schools and 8,509 students, ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES reports that the largest single group is Black at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 20% Hispanic, 20% White, 11% multiracial, 10% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 55% of students at ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Albany County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.8%, the actual is 65.3%, a residual of +10.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Albany County put median household income runs about $85,333, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Albany County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students), of which ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES is one.

Nearest neighbor: STEPHEN AND HARRIET MYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES has declined 25%, going from 504 students in 2018 to 378 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 50% to 39%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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