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Enrollment
908
Combined
DISTRICT 387 · STATE 544
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6·NCES 360008305909
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL
511 W 182ND ST, NEW YORK, NY 10033 · (212) 781-0524 · New York County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL908 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of New York public K-12 schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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 K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
78 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 8.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
799 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 28 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 40 | 4% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 5% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 5% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 4% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 5% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 4% |
| Grade 6 | 77 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 67 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 79 | 9% |
| Grade 9 | 105 | 12% |
| Grade 10 | 125 | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 99 | 11% |
| Grade 12 | 80 | 9% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 49% smaller than its 8th grade class (79).
Student demographics
16%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
52.3%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.7pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.3% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.6% | 46.1% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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%.
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 EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL's state test result (39.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL this school | 908 | 88.0% | 39.7% |
| SCHOOL IN THE SQUARE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 728 | 85.4% | 45.8% |
| BRILLA COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 739 | 91.6% | 49.9% |
| SOUTH BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 434 | 91.5% | 63.4% |
| BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN CHARTER SCHOOL II BROOKLYN | 800 | 91.4% | 61.9% |
| RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL 2 (THE) ELMHURST | 830 | 85.7% | 48.2% |
Matched among New York K-12 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 EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #86 of 101 | #5 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #86 of 101 ▼ 8 | #6 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #57 of 101 ▲ 3 | #5 of 7 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 908 | #12 of 192 | #2 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #127 of 146 | #9 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.6% | #108 of 152 | #12 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.0% | #35 of 136 | #7 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.7% | #34 of 59 | #4 of 7 |
Ranked against other public K-12 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
908
-49 (-5%) vs 2020
+73% since 2010-11, when it was 525
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 908 | 78.1 | 11.6:1 | 88% (799) |
| 2023-24 | 966 | 75.6 | 12.8:1 | 85% (819) |
| 2022-23 | 964 | 77.7 | 12.4:1 | 86% (827) |
| 2020-21 | 957 | 67 | 14.3:1 | 86% (822) |
| 2017-18 | 820 | 64.1 | 12.8:1 | 76% (625) |
| 2015-16 | 757 | 53 | 14.3:1 | 72% (542) |
| 2010-11 | 525 | 41 | 12.8:1 | 92% (484) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL.
About WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is a large combined-grade school in NEW YORK, New York, (ZIP code 10033). Classes run from pre-K through 12, and the school has 908 students. Against the 544-student average for combined schools in New York, enrollment here is 67% higher.
The NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 system has 45 schools and 17,415 students.
Hispanic students are the large majority at WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL, with 92% of enrollment. Other groups include 3% Black, 2% White, and 2% multiracial. By comparison, New York County residents are about 24% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 16%.
Its 78.1 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 11.6:1. The average ratio among combined schools in New York is 8.7:1, lower than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 88% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 70% average among public schools in New York County.
allk12 grades WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL a C-. The grade compares the school only with New York public K-12 schools, because each state gives its own test.
Test results at WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL are 2.9 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (39.7% actual, 42.6% predicted).
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is located in New York County, where median household income is about $103,931, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 64%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is one of 358 public schools in New York County, which together enroll about 152,104 students.
The nearest other public school, JHS 143 ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, is less than a tenth of a mile away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is 5th on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students declined from 957 to 908 over 4 years. Students per teacher fell from 14.3 in 2020-21 to 11.6 in 2024-25.
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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
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- JHS 143 ELEANOR ROOSEVELT0.0 mi · 158
- PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE0.2 mi · 197
- DOS PUENTES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 416
- IS 528 BEA FULLER RODGERS SCHOOL0.2 mi · 230
- SCHOOL IN THE SQUARE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 728
- PS 115 ALEXANDER HUMBOLDT0.3 mi · 350
Frequently asked questions
About WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOLHow large is WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL?
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL enrolls approximately 908 students in grades PK-12.
What grades does WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL serve?
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL serves grades PK-12.
How many teachers does WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL have?
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL employs 78 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL?
At WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 92% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL in?
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6.
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