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Enrollment
619
High
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5·NCES 360008100701
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY
2581 7TH AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10039 · (212) 491-4107 · New York County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL619 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of New York public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.9:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
553 students
DISTRICT 88% · 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 6 | 39 | 6% |
| Grade 7 | 37 | 6% |
| Grade 8 | 40 | 6% |
| Grade 9 | 142 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 129 | 21% |
| Grade 11 | 114 | 18% |
| Grade 12 | 118 | 19% |
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
46.7%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.7pp since 2023
Math
26.1%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.7% | 26.1% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 31.0% |
% 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
30.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY's state test result (30.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY this school | 619 | 89.3% | 30.1% |
| EAST NEW YORK FAMILY ACADEMY BROOKLYN | 610 | 91.6% | 40.0% |
| GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ED HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 557 | 89.2% | 45.5% |
| W H MAXWELL CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 545 | 93.2% | 50.0% |
| DEMOCRACY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 583 | 83.5% | 53.4% |
| BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY BROOKLYN | 469 | 90.4% | 43.3% |
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 FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.1% | #1,079 of 1,135 | #119 of 125 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.1% | #934 of 1,109 ▼ 70 | #83 of 112 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.7% | #995 of 1,135 ▲ 37 | #111 of 125 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 619 | #424 of 1,216 | #21 of 135 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #497 of 1,058 | #42 of 111 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.0% | #400 of 1,070 | #69 of 113 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.3% | #238 of 1,167 | #49 of 133 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -54.5% | #14 of 743 | #5 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
619
-380 (-38%) vs 2020
-60% since 2010-11, when it was 1,545
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 619 | 56.9 | 10.9:1 | 89% (553) |
| 2023-24 | 708 | 60.7 | 11.7:1 | 89% (628) |
| 2022-23 | 815 | 64 | 12.7:1 | 88% (720) |
| 2020-21 | 999 | 69 | 14.5:1 | 86% (863) |
| 2017-18 | 1,360 | 74.5 | 18.3:1 | 76% (1,039) |
| 2015-16 | 1,409 | 84 | 16.8:1 | 72% (1,012) |
| 2010-11 | 1,545 | 80 | 19.3:1 | 66% (1,012) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY.
About FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a high school in NEW YORK, New York. In all, 619 students attend the school in grades 6 through 12.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY is a school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5. The district has 28 schools and 7,761 students.
The largest group at FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY is Black students, at 58%. Enrollment also includes 34% Hispanic and 3% White. Among people living in New York County, the Black share is about 14%. The diversity index for FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY is 54%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 56.9 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.9:1. The 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is close to this figure. FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 89%. For comparison, public schools in New York County average 70%.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 4% of New York public high schools.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY is 12.0 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (30.1% versus 42.1%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
The county, New York County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $103,931 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 64%, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. New York County has 358 public schools with about 152,104 students, including FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY.
The closest school to FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY is PS 200 JAMES MCCUNE SMITH SCHOOL (THE), located less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY is behind the 50.6% nearby average, ranking 7th of 9.
Federal data place FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 38% decline took enrollment from 999 in 2020-21 to 619 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.9:1.
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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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Nearby schools
- PS 200 JAMES MCCUNE SMITH SCHOOL (THE)0.0 mi · 274
- THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 134
- PS 194 COUNTEE CULLEN0.3 mi · 144
- HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY NORTH CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 394
- NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM0.5 mi · 623
- GLOBAL COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL0.5 mi · 477
Frequently asked questions
About FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMYHow large is FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY enrolls approximately 619 students in grades 06-12.
What age range does FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY serve?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY serves students from grade 06 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY is approximately 10.9:1 (57 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY?
Student demographics at FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY are roughly 3% White, 34% Hispanic, 58% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY in?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5.
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