URBAN ASSEMBLY MAKER ACADEMY

Set in NEW YORK, New York, URBAN ASSEMBLY MAKER ACADEMY is a small four-year high school, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2. It teaches 535 students across grades 9 through 12.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 runs 119 schools in total, collectively educating 54,599 students. URBAN ASSEMBLY MAKER ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, URBAN ASSEMBLY MAKER ACADEMY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 26% Black, 15% White, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, URBAN ASSEMBLY MAKER ACADEMY has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, URBAN ASSEMBLY MAKER ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.0%, the actual is 56.5%, a residual of +8.5 points.

Across the wider county, New York County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. URBAN ASSEMBLY MAKER ACADEMY is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

MANHATTAN EARLY COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR ADVERTISING is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around URBAN ASSEMBLY MAKER ACADEMY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), URBAN ASSEMBLY MAKER ACADEMY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at URBAN ASSEMBLY MAKER ACADEMY has increased 38%, going from 389 students in 2018 to 535 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked up from 10% to 15%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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