ORCHARD COLLEGIATE ACADEMY

ORCHARD COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is one of the micro-enrollment high schools in NEW YORK, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1, with 255 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 62% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1, which oversees 26 schools and 9,363 students, ORCHARD COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, ORCHARD COLLEGIATE ACADEMY logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder is composed of 23% Black, 14% Asian, 4% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ORCHARD COLLEGIATE ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.8%.

In the area at large, census data for New York County shows median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. ORCHARD COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

The closest other public school is UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 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), ORCHARD COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ORCHARD COLLEGIATE ACADEMY has climbed 47%, going from 173 students in 2018 to 255 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 today.

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