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NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOL is a combined-grade school of big scale in NEW YORK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1, hosting 1,620 students in grades K through 12. That puts it 198% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 544 students.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1, which oversees 26 schools and 9,363 students, NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Asian (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 36% White, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 12% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 97 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.7:1, putting NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 65.1%; actual is 98.7%, +33.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for New York County indicate 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%. NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOL is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).
Nearest neighbor: PS 188 ISLAND SCHOOL (THE), around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.1%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Five-year trend. NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,729 (now 1,620). The Asian share of enrollment edged up from 33% to 38% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.
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