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What's one thing FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
2,251
High
DISTRICT 534 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3·NCES 360007804458
FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL
100 AMSTERDAM AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10023 · (212) 496-0700 · New York County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL2,251 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of New York public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
153 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
711 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 9 | 553 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 628 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 613 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 457 | 20% |
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
93.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
75.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.0% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 96.0% | 82.0% |
% 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
82.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL
FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (82.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL this school | 2,251 | 31.6% | 82.8% |
| SHAKER HIGH SCHOOL LATHAM | 2,138 | 30.9% | 76.7% |
| HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL EAST DIX HILLS | 1,407 | 30.8% | 81.3% |
| FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL FLORAL PARK | 1,308 | 23.1% | 67.5% |
| EAST MEADOW HIGH SCHOOL EAST MEADOW | 1,549 | 30.3% | 92.2% |
| CLARKSTOWN SOUTH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WEST NYACK | 1,386 | 22.8% | 80.8% |
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 FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.8% | #140 of 1,135 | #16 of 125 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #197 of 1,109 ▼ 14 | #17 of 112 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #111 of 1,135 ▼ 36 | #10 of 125 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,251 | #37 of 1,216 | #2 of 135 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #970 of 1,058 | #96 of 111 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.1% | #15 of 1,070 | #4 of 113 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.6% | #973 of 1,167 | #132 of 133 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.1% | #175 of 743 | #29 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
2,251
-471 (-17%) vs 2020
-12% since 2010-11, when it was 2,545
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 2,251 | 153.1 | 14.7:1 | 32% (711) |
| 2023-24 | 2,141 | 149.5 | 14.3:1 | 32% (677) |
| 2022-23 | 2,381 | 151.3 | 15.7:1 | 34% (806) |
| 2020-21 | 2,722 | 155 | 17.6:1 | 29% (799) |
| 2017-18 | 2,819 | 141.1 | 20.0:1 | 29% (817) |
| 2015-16 | 2,713 | 132 | 20.6:1 | 30% (810) |
| 2010-11 | 2,545 | 128 | 19.9:1 | 30% (751) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL.
About FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL
FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school in New York, with an address in NEW YORK. The grade span is 9 through 12, and enrollment is 2,251 students. An average school in this group (high schools in New York) has about 668 students.
The district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, operates 44 schools serving 19,478 students.
White students form the largest group at FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL, 39% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 19% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 11% Black. Among people living in New York County, the White share is about 48%. FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL has a diversity index of 75%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal staffing data show 153.1 full-time-equivalent teachers at FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL and a ratio of 14.7:1. The average ratio among high schools in New York is 11.0:1, lower than at this school. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 32% of enrollment. That is lower than the 70% average for public schools in New York County.
allk12 grades FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL an A. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
In New York, FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 82.8% actual against a predicted 63.4%.
Among New York County residents, median household income is about $103,931, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 64%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL is one of 358 public schools in New York County, which together enroll about 152,104 students.
The shortest distance from FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL is 3rd on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL as City: Large.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 2,251 was 17% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 2,722. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 17.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.7:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
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- HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE0.1 mi · 531
- HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY0.1 mi · 392
- MANHATTAN/HUNTER SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 447
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Frequently asked questions
About FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL?
FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 2,251 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL serve?
FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 39% White, 17% Hispanic, 11% Black, 19% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL?
FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 in New York County.
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