FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY

As a mid-sized secondary school in NEW YORK, New York, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY serves 619 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5 comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 7,761 students; FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY is among them.

Looking at the student body, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY shows that Black students make up the majority at 58%; the rest comes out to 34% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY records 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for New York County shows median household earnings sit near $103,931, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

PS 200 JAMES MCCUNE SMITH SCHOOL (THE) 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked down 54% since 2018, when it stood at 1,360 (now 619). The Black share of enrollment declined from 70% to 58% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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