CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS

CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS, a mid-tier secondary school in NEW YORK, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6, serves 573 students, covering grades 6 through 12.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 17,415 students; CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is among them.

Demographically, CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.3%, the actual is 44.6%, a residual of +2.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for New York County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

MIDDLE SCHOOL 322 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS has edged down 4%, going from 600 students in 2018 to 573 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 91% to 95% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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