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URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL
URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL is a 9-12 campus of close-knit scale in NEW YORK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, enrolling 518 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 runs 119 schools in total, collectively educating 54,599 students. URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% White, 16% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 62% of students at URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 50.7%, a residual of -1.4 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (New York County) shows that median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
JOHN V LINDSAY WILDCAT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at URBAN ASSEMBLY NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL has decreased 3%, going from 532 students in 2018 to 518 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.
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