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HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 100 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 100 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 99% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 38 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY
HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY is one of the mid-tier secondary schools in NEW YORK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5, with 576 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
Across the 28 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5 (7,761 students total), HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY lists that the largest single group is White at 35%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 28% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 9% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY 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 below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 61.3%; actual is 99.4%, +38.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Around the school, community-level numbers for New York County indicate median household earnings sit near $103,931, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).
HAMILTON GRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 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), HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.8%.
HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY operates from a downtown location.
Trend over the last 7 years. HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY's enrollment has grew 15% since 2018, when it stood at 500 (now 576). Over the same period, the White share edged up from 27% to 35%. Class-load math has rose: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.
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