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What do students at KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL actually talk about outside of class?
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Enrollment
790
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360107506307
KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
21 JUMEL PL-RM D109, NEW YORK, NY 10032 · (212) 991-2620 · New York County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL790 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
41 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
737 students
STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 65 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 107 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 108 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 106 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 39% smaller than its 8th grade class (106).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
57.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
64.6%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 64.6% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 66.2% |
% 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
56.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (56.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 790 | 93.3% | 56.3% |
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST NORTH BROOKLYN PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 843 | 90.3% | 61.8% |
| BUSHWICK ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 738 | 92.3% | 60.9% |
| PS 195 BRONX | 713 | 91.0% | 20.8% |
| PS 33 TIMOTHY DWIGHT BRONX | 789 | 99.1% | 28.3% |
| PS/IS 218 RAFAEL HERNANDEZ DUAL LANGUAGE MAGNET SCHOOL BRONX | 807 | 97.0% | 38.2% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #915 of 2,335 | #75 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.6% | #909 of 2,342 ▼ 226 | #66 of 151 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #1,068 of 2,343 ▼ 70 | #87 of 151 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 790 | #160 of 2,585 | #6 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #2,285 of 2,338 | #120 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.1% | #2,000 of 2,388 | #120 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.3% | #286 of 2,534 | #40 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.1% | #613 of 1,757 | #74 of 114 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
790
-54 (-6%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 790 | 41 | 19.3:1 | 93% (737) |
| 2023-24 | 773 | 51.6 | 15.0:1 | 94% (727) |
| 2022-23 | 789 | 49.5 | 15.9:1 | 93% (732) |
| 2020-21 | 844 | 58 | 14.6:1 | 89% (754) |
| 2017-18 | 989 | 78 | 12.7:1 | 93% (919) |
| 2015-16 | 846 | 87 | 9.7:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL.
About KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a high-enrollment elementary school in NEW YORK, New York, under KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. The school teaches kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 790 students. That puts enrollment 78% larger than the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as its own local education agency.
Of every 100 students at KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, about 86 are Hispanic. The school is also 10% Black and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 24% Hispanic share among all New York County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 25%.
Classroom staffing at KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL totals 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 19.3:1. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is lower. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is about 93%. Across public schools in New York County, the average is 70%.
Among New York public elementary schools, KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL outscored 72%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is 40.7%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 56.3%.
American Community Survey estimates for New York County show that the median household earns about $103,931 a year, about 64% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Across New York County, 358 public schools serve about 152,104 students.
KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is MS 319 MARIE TERESA, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is 3rd of 9 on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL holds a charter, making it a public charter school.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 54 students, from 844 to 790. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 19.3:1.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLHow many students attend KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 790 students in grades KG-08.
Is KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is approximately 19.3:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
At KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 86% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is overseen by KIPP NYC WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL in New York County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.