FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL

FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL is a high-enrollment high school in NEW YORK, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3. The school instructs 2,251 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 237% bigger than the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 19,478 students; FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 19% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 11% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL records 153 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below New York County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.4%; this one delivers 82.8%.

In the area at large, census data for New York County shows median household income runs about $103,931, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MAXINE GREENE HIGH SCHOOL FOR IMAGINATIVE INQUIRY (THE), around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 20%: 2,819 students in 2018 compared to 2,251 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 39% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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