# COLUMBIA SECONDARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008105944`
- **School name**: COLUMBIA SECONDARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10027
- **Address**: 425 W 123RD ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5 (LEAID `3600081`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.81080, -73.95610
- **Phone**: (212)666-1278
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5149836 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Secondary_School
- **Founded**: 2007

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 714
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 57
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Grad Rate: 4
  - HS CCCR: 4
  - HS Attendance: 4
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Growth: 1
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS Weight Performance: 4
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.0% (cohort of 104)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 95)
- **2019**: 97.0% (cohort of 100)
- **2018**: 97.0% (cohort of 90)
- **2017**: 97.0% (cohort of 92)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.8% (90 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.3% (45 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0
- **Restraint incidents**: 0
- **Seclusion incidents**: 0
- **Referrals to law enforcement**: 0
- **Bullying allegations**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 34.7%
- **Black/African American**: 8.1%
- **Asian**: 18.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 30.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 7.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 46.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 106 students
- **English Learners**: 0.6% — 4 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 31 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,916
- **Federal share**: $3,200
- **State + local share**: $22,716
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 719
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $28,015
- **Poverty rate**: 36.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.0%
- **Unemployment**: 11.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $919
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 39.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.8 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 118
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.46 miles (2139 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR BOULEVARD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUBURBANS COMMUNITY MHP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.70496 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN OF HARLEM** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.11%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNY** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.11%)
- **PS 79 HORAN SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.11%)
- **NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.11%)
- **PS 138** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.11%)

### ela proficiency
- **JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON** — 0.8 mi away, 85% (this school: 82%)
- **PS 171 PATRICK HENRY** — 1.3 mi away, 83% (this school: 82%)
- **TAG YOUNG SCHOLARS** — 1.4 mi away, 97% (this school: 82%)
- **PS 77 LOWER LAB SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 98% (this school: 82%)
- **PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON** — 2.0 mi away, 83% (this school: 82%)

### graduation rate
- **CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 97%)
- **PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 99% (this school: 97%)
- **UNIVERSITY PREP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 99% (this school: 97%)
- **ELEANOR ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 98% (this school: 97%)
- **SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 97%)

### math proficiency
- **KIPP BEYOND CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 82.8% (this school: 82.67%)
- **JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON** — 0.8 mi away, 89.8% (this school: 82.67%)
- **PS 171 PATRICK HENRY** — 1.3 mi away, 92% (this school: 82.67%)
- **TAG YOUNG SCHOLARS** — 1.4 mi away, 99.2% (this school: 82.67%)
- **PS 77 LOWER LAB SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 82.67%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/columbia-secondary-school-new-york
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/columbia-secondary-school-new-york/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/columbia-secondary-school-new-york/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/columbia-secondary-school-new-york/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/columbia-secondary-school-new-york/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/columbia-secondary-school-new-york/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/columbia-secondary-school-new-york/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/columbia-secondary-school-new-york/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/columbia-secondary-school-new-york/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/columbia-secondary-school-new-york/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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