GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL

Set in ALBANY, New York, GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL is a modestly sized senior high, run under GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL. It teaches 450 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL sits inside GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL logs that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Albany County's rate of about 45%.

After controlling for student poverty, GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 54.0%; this one comes in at 32.5%, -21.5 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Albany County) reports that median household income runs about $85,333, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Albany County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students), of which GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is THOMAS S O'BRIEN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site. GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 26%: 356 students in 2018 compared to 450 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 73% to 83% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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