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How has THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
408
High
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5·NCES 360008105115
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE
200-214 W 135TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10030 · (212) 283-8055 · New York County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL408 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% 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
8.4:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
370 students
DISTRICT 88% · 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 6 | 37 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 37 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 9 | 80 | 20% |
| Grade 10 | 83 | 20% |
| Grade 11 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 12 | 70 | 17% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
59.4%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.4pp since 2023
Math
48.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.4% | 48.5% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 48.5% |
% 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
45.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE's state test result (45.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE this school | 408 | 90.7% | 45.2% |
| SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 350 | 90.0% | 30.2% |
| ACAD-SCHOLARSHIP & ENTREPRENEURSHIP BRONX | 437 | 89.7% | 41.3% |
| HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY NORTH CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 394 | 87.6% | 76.0% |
| ACADEMY FOR YOUNG WRITERS BROOKLYN | 398 | 89.2% | 34.9% |
| BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 512 | 88.7% | 46.5% |
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 THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #823 of 1,135 | #76 of 125 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #621 of 1,109 ▲ 32 | #47 of 112 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.4% | #796 of 1,135 ▲ 101 | #86 of 125 ▲ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 408 | #691 of 1,216 | #56 of 135 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.4:1 | #89 of 1,058 | #9 of 111 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.8% | #586 of 1,070 | #92 of 113 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.7% | #198 of 1,167 | #38 of 133 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.6% | #132 of 743 | #23 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
408
-133 (-25%) vs 2020
-30% since 2010-11, when it was 581
Student : Teacher
8.4:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 408 | 48.5 | 8.4:1 | 91% (370) |
| 2023-24 | 458 | 48.9 | 9.4:1 | 90% (413) |
| 2022-23 | 479 | 47.7 | 10.1:1 | 89% (427) |
| 2020-21 | 541 | 45 | 12.0:1 | 84% (454) |
| 2017-18 | 534 | 36 | 14.8:1 | 74% (397) |
| 2015-16 | 547 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 70% (385) |
| 2010-11 | 581 | 35 | 16.6:1 | 74% (430) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE.
About THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE is a small high school. Its address is in NEW YORK, New York. Students in grades 6 through 12 make up the school's enrollment of 408 students. High schools in New York have about 668 students on average; enrollment here is 39% lower.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5 (28 schools, 7,761 students) runs THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE.
The student body at THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE is 69% Black. The rest of enrollment is 26% Hispanic. Among all residents of New York County, the Black share is about 14%. A diversity index of 46% means there is a 46% chance two randomly chosen students at THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE are from different groups.
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE reported 48.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 8.4:1. By comparison, the average for high schools in New York is 11.0:1. There are 370 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 91% of enrollment. The gap from the 70% average for public schools in New York County is 21 points.
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 33% of New York public high schools.
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE is 3.5 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (45.2% versus 41.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
New York County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $103,931 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 64% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Public schools in New York County number 358, with about 152,104 students.
DEMOCRACY PREP HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE ranks 4th of 9 nearby schools, at 45.2% versus a 47.1% average.
Under the NCES locale system, THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE is City: Large.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 133 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 8.4 students per teacher, compared with 12.0 in 2020-21.
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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
- DEMOCRACY PREP HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 900
- PS 92 MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE0.1 mi · 165
- ST. HOPE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 184
- PS 175 HENRY H GARNET0.1 mi · 291
- EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF HARLEM0.2 mi · 228
- MOTT HALL HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 277
Frequently asked questions
About THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGEHow large is THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE?
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE enrolls approximately 408 students in grades 06-12.
What grades does THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE serve?
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE serves grades 06-12.
How many students per teacher at THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE?
Approximately 8.4:1 students per teacher at THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE.
What is the racial breakdown of students at THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE?
At THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE, the student body is approximately 2% White, 26% Hispanic, 69% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE in?
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5.
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