HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL

HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary campus in NEW YORK, New York, part of HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL. The school instructs 446 students in grades K through 4.

HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL sits inside HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL logs that 71% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 23% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. 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, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 42.3%; HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL posts 88.3%, +46.1 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, 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%. HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

Nearest neighbor: PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE), around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 43.5%.

HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL operates from a high-density location. As a public charter, HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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