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Enrollment
552
High
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6·NCES 360008305878
COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS
504 W 158TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10033 · (212) 342-6600 · New York County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL552 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
508 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 55 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 66 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 9 | 98 | 18% |
| Grade 10 | 74 | 13% |
| Grade 11 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 12 | 90 | 16% |
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
46.9%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
29.8%
NY avg 57.4% . -16.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 16 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.9% | 29.8% |
| 2023-24 | 46.1% | 46.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS
COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS's state test result (38.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS this school | 552 | 92.0% | 38.8% |
| ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY NEW YORK | 528 | 95.6% | 32.9% |
| MOTT HALL V BRONX | 636 | 89.2% | 38.7% |
| WEST BRONX ACADEMY FOR THE FUTURE BRONX | 575 | 95.1% | 23.3% |
| CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE BRONX | 523 | 94.1% | 49.4% |
| BRONX STUDIO SCHOOL FOR WRITERS AND ARTISTS BRONX | 589 | 93.5% | 33.4% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.8% | #966 of 1,135 | #102 of 125 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.8% | #889 of 1,109 ▼ 201 | #74 of 112 ▼ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.9% | #993 of 1,135 ▲ 38 | #110 of 125 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 552 | #486 of 1,216 | #27 of 135 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #360 of 1,058 | #35 of 111 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.6% | #765 of 1,070 | #102 of 113 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.0% | #158 of 1,167 | #28 of 133 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.0% | #176 of 743 | #30 of 79 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
552
-100 (-15%) vs 2020
+21% since 2010-11, when it was 458
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 11.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 552 | 53.9 | 10.3:1 | 92% (508) |
| 2023-24 | 574 | 56.8 | 10.1:1 | 93% (533) |
| 2022-23 | 612 | 56 | 10.9:1 | 92% (561) |
| 2020-21 | 652 | 55 | 11.8:1 | 92% (602) |
| 2017-18 | 690 | 49 | 14.1:1 | 94% (646) |
| 2015-16 | 641 | 47 | 13.6:1 | 93% (594) |
| 2010-11 | 458 | 35 | 13.1:1 | 81% (370) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS.
About COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS
Families in NEW YORK, New York, are served by COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS, a small high school. It serves 552 students in grades 6 through 12.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 counts 17,415 students in its 45 schools, and COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS is one of them.
About 81% of the student body at COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS is Hispanic. Smaller groups are 12% Black and 3% White. County-wide, 24% of New York County residents are Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 33%, meaning two students picked at random have a 33% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Dividing enrollment by its 53.9 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 10.3:1. That is lower than the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Eligible students account for 92% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. Across public schools in New York County, the average is 70%.
The allk12 Grade for COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS is C-. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 18% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school with COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 41.1%. COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS scores 38.8%, 2.4 points below that line.
Recent Census Bureau figures for New York County show that the median household income is $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS is one of 358 public schools in the county.
Nearby, PS 4 DUKE ELLINGTON is about 0.1 miles away. Within five miles of COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 46.7%; COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS's is 38.8%, ranking 7th of 9.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 15% enrollment decrease, from 652 in 2020-21 to 552 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.8:1 in 2020-21 to 10.3:1 in 2024-25.
Community posts for COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
New York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,629,477
Census ACS
Median income
$103,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
358
152,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6
- A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,421 students
- WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOLCombined · 908 students
- PS/IS 187 HUDSON CLIFFSElementary · 744 students
- GREGORIO LUPERON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICSHigh · 658 students
- PS 173Elementary · 597 students
- CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTSHigh · 573 students
Other schools in NEW YORK
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,251 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICSHigh · 1,657 students
- NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 1,620 students
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 1Combined · 1,520 students
Nearby schools
- PS 4 DUKE ELLINGTON0.1 mi · 428
- PS 28 WRIGHT BROTHERS0.1 mi · 378
- WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 464
- PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY0.3 mi · 399
- PS 46 ARTHUR TAPPAN0.3 mi · 363
- COMMUNITY MATH AND SCIENCE PREP0.4 mi · 115
Frequently asked questions
About COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTSHow large is COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS?
COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS enrolls approximately 552 students in grades 06-12.
Is COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS an elementary, middle, or high school?
COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS is a high school covering grades 06-12.
How many students per teacher at COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS?
Approximately 10.3:1 students per teacher at COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS.
How diverse is COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS?
COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS reports a student body of 3% White, 81% Hispanic, 12% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS public or private?
COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.