# EMMA LAZARUS HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007706169`
- **School name**: EMMA LAZARUS HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10002
- **Address**: 100 HESTER ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (LEAID `3600077`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **Grade range**: 9–11
- **Coordinates**: 40.71650, -73.99370
- **Phone**: (212)925-5017

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 279
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 3
  - HS CCCR: 1
  - HS ELP: 4
  - HS Core Performance: 3
  - HS Grad Rate: 1
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - 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**: 45.0% (cohort of 159)
- **2021**: 52.0% (cohort of 141)
- **2019**: 47.0% (cohort of 75)
- **2018**: 62.0% (cohort of 99)
- **2016**: 64.0% (cohort of 59)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 61.2% (145 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 15.5% (47 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**: 1.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 30.6%
- **Black/African American**: 35.1%
- **Asian**: 26.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 0.0%
- **English Learners**: 78.2% — 237 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,006
- **Federal share**: $5,015
- **State + local share**: $24,991
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 300
### 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)
- **Poverty rate**: 10.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.9%
- **Unemployment**: 11.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,340
- **Foreign-born residents**: 53.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.4 miles (GOWANUS CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 162
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.27 miles (VERNAM BARBADOES BASINS)

### 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**: 7.65041 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN** — 0.1 mi away, 0.44% (this school: 1.98%)
- **PS 124 YUNG WING** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.98%)
- **ESSEX STREET ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 1.97% (this school: 1.98%)
- **PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO** — 0.3 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 1.98%)
- **PS 126 JACOB AUGUST RIIS** — 0.5 mi away, 1.41% (this school: 1.98%)

### graduation rate
- **PACE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 78% (this school: 45%)
- **NEW DESIGN HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 95% (this school: 45%)
- **ESSEX STREET ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 94% (this school: 45%)
- **URBAN ASSEMBLY ACADEMY OF GOVERNMENT AND LAW** — 0.2 mi away, 87% (this school: 45%)
- **LOWER MANHATTAN ARTS ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 45%)

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