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SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II·NCES 360109006378

EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II

1573 MADISON AVE-RM 320, NEW YORK, NY 10029 · (212) 348-2518 · New York County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL346 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 38% of New York public elementary schools
  • CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
  • B-Beats 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 elementary schools

Enrollment
346
Elementary
STATE 443
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
31 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
317 students
STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.

Enrollment by grade, 2024-25

GradeStudentsShare
Pre-K10%
Kindergarten226%
Grade 1278%
Grade 2257%
Grade 3288%
Grade 43410%
Grade 54513%
Grade 64312%
Grade 76218%
Grade 85917%

This year's kindergarten class (22) is 63% smaller than its 8th grade class (59).

Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 72% · US 70%
White
51%
STATE 39% · US 43%
Hispanic
20359%
STATE 31% · US 30%
Black
11433%
STATE 16% · US 15%
Asian
165%
STATE 10% · US 6%
Two+
21%
STATE 4% · US 5%
Native American
62%
STATE 1% · US 1%
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
Male
17450%
Female
17250%

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Test scores

NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)
English Language Arts
48.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +14.0pp since 2023

What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.

NYS Assessments results by year

School yearEnglish Language ArtsMath
2024-2548.0%49.0%
2023-2437.0%35.0%
% 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 · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
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 EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II

EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II's state test result (38.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.

SchoolStudentsLow-incomeProficient
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II this school34691.6%38.7%
PS 16 WAKEFIELD
BRONX
34393.6%25.3%
PS 112 BRONXWOOD
BRONX
37093.2%29.7%
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 5
BRONX
32992.7%81.9%
DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL HIGHBRIDGE
BRONX
36394.5%62.5%
EAST NEW YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE
BROOKLYN
34993.7%27.0%
Matched among New York elementary 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 EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II ranks

Among elementary schools
MeasureThis schoolIn New YorkIn New York County
State test proficiency
ranked highest first
38.7%#1,689 of 2,335#113 of 154
Math proficiency
ranked highest first
49.0%#1,483 of 2,342
▲ 353
#99 of 151
▲ 22
Reading proficiency
ranked highest first
48.0%#1,416 of 2,343
▲ 17
#105 of 151
▲ 7
Enrollment
ranked largest first
346#1,694 of 2,585#87 of 158
Students per teacher
ranked fewest first
11.2:1#912 of 2,338#51 of 122
Diversity index
ranked most diverse first
54.5%#1,033 of 2,388#79 of 133
Free and reduced lunch
ranked highest share first
91.6%#346 of 2,534#47 of 155
Enrollment change since 2017-18
ranked fastest growth first
+1.5%#533 of 606#26 of 28
Ranked against other public elementary 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 2024-25
Enrollment
346
-181 (-34%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 52.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Enrollment and staffing by year

School yearStudentsTeachers (FTE)Students per teacherFree and reduced lunch
2024-253463111.2:192% (317)
2023-244003511.4:188% (352)
2022-23398478.5:190% (358)
2020-215271052.7:181% (428)
2017-18341408.5:193% (316)
2015-16214N/AN/A0% (0)
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II.

About EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II

EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II is one of the public schools in NEW YORK, New York. It is a small elementary school. Students in pre-K through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 346 students. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students.

Federal records list EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II as its own district.

At EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II, Hispanic students make up 59% of the student body. After that, the student body is 33% Black and 5% Asian. Census figures show New York County is about 24% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 54% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Dividing enrollment by its 31 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 11.2:1. That is 1.7 students per teacher below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II reports 92% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 70% average among public schools in New York County.

The allk12 Grade for EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II is C+. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 38% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.

EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II scores 38.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 41.3%.

New York County has about 1,629,477 residents, and the median household income is $103,931, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 64%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Besides EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II, New York County has 357 other public schools.

Of nearby public schools, CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL is the closest, at less than a tenth of a mile. EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II comes in 6th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.

Federal data place EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.

Over 4 years, EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II's enrollment dropped 34%, to 346. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 52.7:1 in 2020-21 to 11.2:1 in 2024-25.

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New York County at a glance

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Population
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

School name
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II
District
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II
Address
1573 MADISON AVE-RM 320, NEW YORK, NY 10029
Phone
(212) 348-2518
County
New York County
Level
Elementary
Grade range
PK–08
Total enrollment
346
Teachers (FTE)
31
Student–teacher ratio
11.2:1
Free and reduced lunch
317 (92%)
Locale
11-City: Large
NCES ID
360109006378
Charter school
Yes
Virtual school
No

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Frequently asked questions

About EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II
How large is EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II?
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II enrolls approximately 346 students in grades PK-08.
Is EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II an elementary, middle, or high school?
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II have?
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II?
At EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II, the student body is approximately 1% White, 59% Hispanic, 33% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II?
EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II is overseen by EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II in New York County.
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