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What's the one class at WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY every student should take?
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Enrollment
463
Elementary
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6·NCES 360008305990
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY
202 SHERMAN AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10034 · (212) 304-3320 · New York County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL463 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
420 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 38 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 61 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 50 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (50).
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · 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
76.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
85.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.0% | 85.1% |
| 2023-24 | 76.0% | 81.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
76.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+34.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 35 points, placing it in New York's top 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 WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY's state test result (76.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY this school | 463 | 90.7% | 76.5% |
| PS 89 CYPRESS HILLS BROOKLYN | 447 | 92.8% | 26.4% |
| LEEP DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 435 | 91.7% | 49.5% |
| PS 189 NEW YORK | 421 | 93.3% | 49.3% |
| PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY NEW YORK | 399 | 90.2% | 53.1% |
| PS 123 SUYDAM BROOKLYN | 446 | 95.1% | 32.2% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.5% | #230 of 2,335 | #41 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.1% | #224 of 2,342 ▲ 41 | #38 of 151 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #341 of 2,343 ▼ 186 | #47 of 151 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 463 | #1,007 of 2,585 | #46 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #1,997 of 2,338 | #95 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.0% | #2,262 of 2,388 | #130 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.7% | #379 of 2,534 | #50 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.5% | #637 of 1,757 | #75 of 114 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
463
-90 (-16%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 17.8:1
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 | 463 | 31.5 | 14.7:1 | 91% (420) |
| 2023-24 | 477 | 34 | 14.0:1 | 91% (432) |
| 2022-23 | 511 | 37 | 13.8:1 | 88% (449) |
| 2020-21 | 553 | 31 | 17.8:1 | 87% (482) |
| 2017-18 | 575 | 34 | 16.9:1 | 90% (519) |
| 2015-16 | 514 | 18 | 28.6:1 | 87% (448) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY.
About WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in NEW YORK, New York. Enrollment is 463 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 8.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 oversees WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY and 44 other schools, with 17,415 students in total.
Hispanic students make up 94% of enrollment at WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY. The next largest groups are 3% Black and 2% White. In New York County overall, about 24% of residents are Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 12%, meaning two students picked at random have a 12% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its teaching staff equals 31.5 full-time positions, a ratio of 14.7:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 14.7:1 here. Around 91% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The 70% average for public schools in New York County is 21 points lower.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY is in the top 10% of New York schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 41.6%. The school's actual rate is 76.5%, 34.8 points higher.
In New York County (population about 1,629,477), the median household income is $103,931, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 64%, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY is one of 358 public schools in the county.
AMISTAD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.1 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY comes in 1st of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment declined 16% from its 2020-21 level of 553. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.8:1 in 2020-21 to 14.7:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6
- A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,421 students
- WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOLCombined · 908 students
- PS/IS 187 HUDSON CLIFFSElementary · 744 students
- GREGORIO LUPERON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICSHigh · 658 students
- PS 173Elementary · 597 students
- CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTSHigh · 573 students
Other schools in NEW YORK
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,251 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICSHigh · 1,657 students
- NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 1,620 students
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 1Combined · 1,520 students
Nearby schools
- AMISTAD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 391
- MUSCOTA0.1 mi · 290
- INWOOD ACADEMY FOR LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 955
- HAROLD O LEVY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 127
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION0.2 mi · 198
- INWOOD EARLY COLLEGE FOR HEALTH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES0.2 mi · 380
Frequently asked questions
About WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY?
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY enrolls approximately 463 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY serve?
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY.
How diverse is WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY?
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY reports a student body of 2% White, 94% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY?
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ACADEMY is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 in New York County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.