CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL

CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL is one of the modestly sized high schools in NEW YORK, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4, with 481 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 28% below typical.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4, which oversees 30 schools and 11,316 students, CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Black, 11% Asian, 7% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 77% of students at CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 46.6%; CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL posts 82.2%, +35.6 points above that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (New York County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: CENTRAL PARK EAST I, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 493 (now 481). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 52% to 57%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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