MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS
MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS operates as a rural-scale four-year high school in NEW YORK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2. Current enrollment sits at 136 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 80% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 runs 119 schools in total, collectively educating 54,599 students. MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 38% Black, 3% White, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.1:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.5%; this one delivers 37.7%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (New York County) shows that median household earnings sit near $103,931, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).
URBAN ASSEMBLY-EARLY COLL HS EMER MD is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 64.7%.
MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS operates from a metropolitan location.
Five-year trend. MURRY BERGTRAUM HIGH SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS CAREERS's enrollment has edged down 48% since 2018, when it stood at 264 (now 136). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 39% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.
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