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What's the one class at NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES every student should take?
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Enrollment
413
High
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2·NCES 360007702857
NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES
333 W 17TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10011 · (212) 691-6119 · New York County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL413 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of New York public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
241 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 101 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 106 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 97 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 109 | 26% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
94.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
86.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 94.0% | 86.0% |
| 2023-24 | 97.0% | 97.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
88.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+35.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 54% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 35 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES
NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES's state test result (88.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES this school | 413 | 58.4% | 88.7% |
| ELEANOR ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 538 | 54.3% | 89.2% |
| BARUCH COLLEGE CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 479 | 66.0% | 88.4% |
| NYC MUSEUM SCHOOL NEW YORK | 481 | 55.9% | 64.8% |
| MILLENNIUM BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 682 | 57.5% | 93.3% |
| BACCALAUREATE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION LONG ISLAND CITY | 523 | 55.1% | 88.7% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 88.7% | #75 of 1,135 | #7 of 125 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #80 of 1,109 ▼ 63 | #11 of 112 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #90 of 1,135 ▼ 37 | #9 of 125 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #678 of 1,216 | #54 of 135 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #350 of 1,058 | #34 of 111 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.1% | #38 of 1,070 | #12 of 113 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.4% | #614 of 1,167 | #118 of 133 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.7% | #239 of 743 | #37 of 79 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
413
-69 (-14%) vs 2020
-21% since 2010-11, when it was 524
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 11.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 413 | 40.4 | 10.2:1 | 58% (241) |
| 2023-24 | 425 | 46.1 | 9.2:1 | 56% (239) |
| 2022-23 | 463 | 44.2 | 10.5:1 | 48% (222) |
| 2020-21 | 482 | 43 | 11.2:1 | 34% (162) |
| 2017-18 | 496 | 38 | 13.1:1 | 29% (146) |
| 2015-16 | 527 | 37 | 14.2:1 | 31% (164) |
| 2010-11 | 524 | 31 | 16.9:1 | 26% (135) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES.
About NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES
NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is a high school in NEW YORK, New York, according to federal school records. Federal data show 413 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. On average, high schools in New York enroll around 668, and this school is 38% below that mark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 counts 54,599 students in its 119 schools, and NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is one of them.
About 35% of students at NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES are White, the largest single group. The school is also 28% Asian, 24% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 5% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 48%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 73%.
The school had 40.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 10.2:1. Across high schools in New York, the average ratio is 11.0:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 58%. The gap from the 70% average for public schools in New York County is 12 points.
On the allk12 Grade, NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES lands at A+, ahead of 96% of New York public high schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is +35.1 points, in the top 10% of New York. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 88.7%, and the predicted rate is 53.5%.
In New York County, home to about 1,629,477 people, the median household earns about $103,931 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 64% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES shares New York County with 357 other public schools.
NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is less than a tenth of a mile from NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 61.2% proficiency; NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES posts 88.7%.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES had a net loss of 69 students, or 14%.
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New York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,629,477
Census ACS
Median income
$103,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
358
152,104 students
Quick facts
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Nearby schools
- NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES0.0 mi · 538
- NYC MUSEUM SCHOOL0.0 mi · 481
- HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES0.1 mi · 189
- JAMES BALDWIN SCHOOL-A SCHOOL FOR EXPEDITIONARY LRNING0.1 mi · 138
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Frequently asked questions
About NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIESHow large is NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES?
NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES enrolls approximately 413 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES serve?
NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is approximately 10.2:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES?
Student demographics at NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES are roughly 35% White, 24% Hispanic, 7% Black, 28% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES in?
NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.