HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE

HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE is a secondary school of cozy scale in NEW YORK, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, instructing 531 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Across the 44 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 (19,478 students total), HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%; the rest comes out to 26% Black, 5% White, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (New York County) reports that 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%. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE is one.

MAXINE GREENE HIGH SCHOOL FOR IMAGINATIVE INQUIRY (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 67.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 15%: 462 students in 2018 compared to 531 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 34% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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