NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM

As a medium-sized primary school in NEW YORK, New York, NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM instructs 623 students from grades K through 8, overseen by NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM. Enrollment runs roughly 41% above the state mean of about 443.

NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM is the operating authority for NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 38% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

In terms of school funding signals, An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above New York County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 40.8%; NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM posts 66.0%, +25.2 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for New York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM is one.

PS 153 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 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), NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.8%.

NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM operates from a city-core location. NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 34%: 465 students in 2018 compared to 623 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 48% to 38%.

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