MURRAY HILL ACADEMY

Set in NEW YORK, New York, MURRAY HILL ACADEMY is a low-enrollment senior high, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2. It caters to 298 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 55% smaller than the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 runs 119 schools in total, collectively educating 54,599 students. MURRAY HILL ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MURRAY HILL ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 20% Black, 15% Asian, 11% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MURRAY HILL ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (New York County) reports that 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%. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), MURRAY HILL ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MANHATTAN ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND LANGUAGES, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MURRAY HILL ACADEMY comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.1%.

MURRAY HILL ACADEMY operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. MURRAY HILL ACADEMY's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 317 (now 298). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 32% to 20%.

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