FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL

As a close-knit four-year high school in NEW YORK, New York, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL teaches 310 students from grades 6 through 12, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3. That puts it 54% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL is one of 44 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, a district that educates 19,478 students overall.

Demographically, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 58%. The remainder looks like 32% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% Native American. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 27.6%, a residual of -13.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, New York County reports that median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

WADLEIGH PERF AND VISUAL ARTS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL has decreased 13%, going from 355 students in 2018 to 310 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 64% to 58%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 7.4:1 in 2025.

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