UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL

UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL is a close-knit senior high in NEW YORK, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1. The school hosts 474 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1 runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 9,363 students. UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 32% Asian, 14% Black, 11% White. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.1%, the actual is 64.2%, a residual of +17.1 points.

In the broader community, New York County reports that median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is PS 184 SHUANG WEN, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL has held roughly steady, going from 472 students in 2018 to 474 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 22% to 14% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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