HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, an expansive high school in NEW YORK, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, educates 1,007 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 51% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 comprises 119 schools with combined enrollment of 54,599 students; HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES is among them.

In terms of who attends, HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest consists of 16% White, 14% Black, 11% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 69% of students at HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.6%; this one delivers 63.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (New York County) logs that median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES is one.

The closest other public school is INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES has ticked down 16%, going from 1,201 students in 2018 to 1,007 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 64% to 54% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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