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Enrollment
392
High
DISTRICT 534 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3·NCES 360007805114
HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
122 AMSTERDAM AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10023 · (212) 501-1198 · New York County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL392 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
351 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 104 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 114 | 29% |
| Grade 11 | 89 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 84 | 21% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
27.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 62.0% | 16.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY's state test result (34.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY this school | 392 | 89.5% | 34.8% |
| BRONX COLLEGIATE ACADEMY BRONX | 429 | 90.4% | 45.0% |
| MILLENIUM ART ACADEMY BRONX | 348 | 89.9% | 40.7% |
| BUSINESS OF SPORTS SCHOOL NEW YORK | 407 | 87.0% | 40.2% |
| FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS BRONX | 351 | 88.3% | 60.3% |
| RENAISSANCE HIGH SCHOOL FOR MUSICAL THEATER AND THE ARTS BRONX | 385 | 87.0% | 63.3% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #1,012 of 1,135 | #111 of 125 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #921 of 1,109 ▲ 112 | #82 of 112 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #802 of 1,135 ▼ 19 | #87 of 125 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 392 | #731 of 1,216 | #67 of 135 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.2:1 | #169 of 1,058 | #19 of 111 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.3% | #483 of 1,070 | #82 of 113 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.5% | #232 of 1,167 | #47 of 133 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.2% | #144 of 743 | #27 of 79 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
392
-67 (-15%) vs 2020
-33% since 2010-11, when it was 584
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 392 | 42.7 | 9.2:1 | 90% (351) |
| 2023-24 | 416 | 42.8 | 9.7:1 | 87% (361) |
| 2022-23 | 448 | 35 | 12.8:1 | 86% (384) |
| 2020-21 | 459 | 34 | 13.5:1 | 87% (399) |
| 2017-18 | 504 | 32 | 15.8:1 | 84% (423) |
| 2015-16 | 586 | 32 | 18.3:1 | 89% (520) |
| 2010-11 | 584 | 30 | 19.5:1 | 86% (500) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY.
About HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
Located in NEW YORK, New York, HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY is a small high school. The school serves 392 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. For comparison, high schools in New York average about 668 students.
HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY belongs to NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, a district of 44 schools and 19,478 students.
Roughly 64% of students at HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY are Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 30% Black and 3% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 24%. Pick two students at random and there is a 50% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY operates with 42.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 9.2:1. That is lower than the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. About 90% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The 70% average for public schools in New York County is 20 points lower.
Measured against New York public high schools, HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 42.1% for HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY. The school posts 34.8%, 7.2 points below the prediction.
Among New York County residents, the median household income is $103,931, about 64% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Besides HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY, New York County has 357 other public schools.
The closest other public school is URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MEDIA STUDIES, less than a tenth of a mile away. HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ranks 8th of 9 nearby schools, at 34.8% versus a 69.0% average.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 392, a 15% decrease from 459 in 2020-21. The school's ratio fell from 13.5:1 to 9.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
New York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,629,477
Census ACS
Median income
$103,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
358
152,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3
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- WEST END SECONDARY SCHOOLHigh · 722 students
- JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTONMiddle · 720 students
- PS 84 LILLIAN WEBERElementary · 685 students
Other schools in NEW YORK
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- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,251 students
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- NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 1,620 students
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Nearby schools
- URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MEDIA STUDIES0.0 mi · 331
- MAXINE GREENE HIGH SCHOOL FOR IMAGINATIVE INQUIRY (THE)0.0 mi · 93
- MANHATTAN/HUNTER SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 447
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE0.0 mi · 531
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 2,251
- SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL0.1 mi · 305
Frequently asked questions
About HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGYHow large is HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY?
HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY enrolls approximately 392 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY serve?
HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY have?
HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.2:1.
How diverse is HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY?
HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY reports a student body of 1% White, 64% Hispanic, 30% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY?
HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 in New York County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.