THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE

THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE is a secondary school of cozy scale in NEW YORK, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5, teacheing 408 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 668.

Across the 28 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5 (7,761 students total), THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE records that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 26% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than New York County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.2%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (New York County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE is one.

The closest other public school is DEMOCRACY PREP HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 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), THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 24%: 534 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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