HERITAGE SCHOOL (THE)

HERITAGE SCHOOL (THE) operates as a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus in NEW YORK, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4. Current enrollment sits at 223 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so HERITAGE SCHOOL (THE) sits 67% below that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4, which oversees 30 schools and 11,316 students, HERITAGE SCHOOL (THE) is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HERITAGE SCHOOL (THE) logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 31% Black. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at HERITAGE SCHOOL (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above New York County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, HERITAGE SCHOOL (THE) tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for New York County put the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), HERITAGE SCHOOL (THE) is one campus in the mix.

LEXINGTON ACADEMY (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HERITAGE SCHOOL (THE) comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 25%: 297 students in 2018 compared to 223 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share grew from 26% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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