STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL

As a close-knit secondary school in NEW YORK, New York, STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL hosts 337 students from grades 9 through 12, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 50% below typical.

Across the 119 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (54,599 students total), STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 24% Black, 4% White, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.6:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above New York County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.9%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for New York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL is one.

SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HELL'S KITCHEN is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 401 (now 337). Class-load math has tightened: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 in 2025.

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