NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier high schools in NEW YORK, New York, part of NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, with 673 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 12.

NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the operating authority for NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%); the rest reads as 10% Black. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL qualify 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 north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.9%; this one delivers 50.3%.

Across the wider county, census data for New York County shows median household income runs about $103,931, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 46.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site. NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 755 (now 673). The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 96% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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