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Enrollment
499
High
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2·NCES 360007705625
PACE HIGH SCHOOL
100 HESTER ST, NEW YORK, NY 10002 · (212) 334-4663 · New York County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL499 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 35% of New York public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
7.1:1
71 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
413 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 | 113 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 139 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 128 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 117 | 23% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
62%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
74.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.0pp since 2023
Math
28.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 78.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 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 PACE HIGH SCHOOL
PACE HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (47.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PACE HIGH SCHOOL this school | 499 | 82.8% | 47.7% |
| ASTOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMY BRONX | 429 | 84.4% | 47.7% |
| PELHAM PREPARATORY ACADEMY BRONX | 460 | 83.5% | 45.8% |
| ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY BROOKLYN | 390 | 80.3% | 44.0% |
| PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 398 | 82.7% | 84.5% |
| MANHATTAN EARLY COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR ADVERTISING NEW YORK | 390 | 85.1% | 58.2% |
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 PACE HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #772 of 1,135 | #73 of 125 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #898 of 1,109 ▼ 10 | #77 of 112 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #506 of 1,135 ▲ 2 | #59 of 125 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 499 | #543 of 1,216 | #36 of 135 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.1:1 | #24 of 1,058 | #2 of 111 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.8% | #235 of 1,070 | #43 of 113 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.8% | #395 of 1,167 | #85 of 133 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.7% | #546 of 743 | #59 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
499
-85 (-15%) vs 2020
+21% since 2010-11, when it was 413
Student : Teacher
7.1:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 499 | 70.6 | 7.1:1 | 83% (413) |
| 2023-24 | 534 | 61.7 | 8.7:1 | 81% (435) |
| 2022-23 | 529 | 60.4 | 8.8:1 | 74% (393) |
| 2020-21 | 584 | 39 | 15.0:1 | 83% (487) |
| 2017-18 | 535 | 37 | 14.5:1 | 80% (426) |
| 2015-16 | 478 | 28 | 17.1:1 | 79% (380) |
| 2010-11 | 413 | 27 | 15.3:1 | 67% (277) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PACE HIGH SCHOOL.
About PACE HIGH SCHOOL
PACE HIGH SCHOOL is a small high school in New York, with an address in NEW YORK. School enrollment was 499 students in 2024-25, in grades 9 through 12. The average among high schools in New York is roughly 668 students; this school is 25% smaller than that.
The district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, operates 119 schools serving 54,599 students.
At 52%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at PACE HIGH SCHOOL combined. It is also 32% Black, 9% Asian, and 5% White. New York County's residents are about 24% Hispanic, 27 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at PACE HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 62%.
Teachers at PACE HIGH SCHOOL total 70.6 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 7.1:1. The 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. The school counts 413 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 83%. Compared with the 70% average for public schools in New York County, the school's rate is higher.
The allk12 Grade for PACE HIGH SCHOOL is C+. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 35% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The model predicts 44.5% for a school in New York with PACE HIGH SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. PACE HIGH SCHOOL posts 47.7%.
Federal survey data for New York County show that median household income is about $103,931, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 64% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. A total of 358 public schools operate in New York County, serving about 152,104 students.
The shortest distance from PACE HIGH SCHOOL to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to MS 131. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, PACE HIGH SCHOOL is 8th on average proficiency.
PACE HIGH SCHOOL is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
The student count in 2024-25 was 499, 15% below the 584 of 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.0:1 to 7.1:1 over the same years.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- ART AND DESIGN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,485 students
- HIGH SCHOOL OF FASHION INDUSTRIES (THE)High · 1,455 students
- JHS 104 SIMON BARUCHMiddle · 1,023 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESHigh · 1,007 students
Other schools in NEW YORK
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,251 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICSHigh · 1,657 students
- NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 1,620 students
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 1Combined · 1,520 students
Other Pace High schools
One other US public school is named Pace High. PACE HIGH SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- PACE HIGH SCHOOLPACE, FL · 2,316 students
Nearby schools
- MS 1310.0 mi · 257
- EMMA LAZARUS HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 279
- PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN0.1 mi · 476
- PS 124 YUNG WING0.2 mi · 453
- URBAN ASSEMBLY ACADEMY OF GOVERNMENT AND LAW0.2 mi · 256
- LOWER MANHATTAN ARTS ACADEMY0.2 mi · 262
Frequently asked questions
About PACE HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PACE HIGH SCHOOL?
PACE HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 499 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does PACE HIGH SCHOOL serve?
PACE HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at PACE HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 7.1:1 students per teacher at PACE HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PACE HIGH SCHOOL?
At PACE HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 5% White, 52% Hispanic, 32% Black, 9% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PACE HIGH SCHOOL in?
PACE HIGH SCHOOL 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.