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NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% 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 29 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES
NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES, a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in NEW YORK, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, teaches 538 students, covering grades 6 through 8.
NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is one of 119 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, a district that enrolls 54,599 students overall.
Demographically, NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES lists that the most-represented group is Asian (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 28% White, 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 12% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below New York County's rate of about 70%.
With demographic context factored in, NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 60.0%; actual is 89.2%, +29.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Around the school, community-level numbers for New York County indicate median household earnings sit near $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is NYC MUSEUM SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 61.1%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. NYC LAB MS FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 554 (now 538). The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 55% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.
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