HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY

HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a very small high school in NEW YORK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2. The school enrolls 261 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, which oversees 119 schools and 54,599 students, HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY records that 55% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 18% White, 14% Black, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 50.2%; actual is 88.0%, +37.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for New York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, 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 HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES, roughly 0.0 miles away. 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), HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 61.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY has ticked up 12%, going from 233 students in 2018 to 261 in 2025. The White share of enrollment climbed from 8% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.