# FACING HISTORY SCHOOL (THE)

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007705769`
- **School name**: FACING HISTORY SCHOOL (THE)
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10019
- **Address**: 525 W 50TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (LEAID `3600077`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.76560, -73.99290
- **Phone**: (212)757-2680
- **Wikidata QID**: Q105206880

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 394
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.1%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 114)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 58.0% (195 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.7% (30 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 12.5% (32 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 71.9% (184 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**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 63.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 27.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 34.8% — 89 students
- **English Learners**: 22.3% — 57 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 60 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### 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**: $84,129
- **Poverty rate**: 7.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 64.9%
- **Unemployment**: 2.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,639
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.7 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 157
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.13 miles (540 W 53RD CLINTON HOUSING)

### 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**: 5.9122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **FOOD AND FINANCE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 4.62% (this school: 11.72%)
- **URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION** — 0.0 mi away, 9.73% (this school: 11.72%)
- **BUSINESS OF SPORTS SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 8.58% (this school: 11.72%)
- **URBAN ASSEMBLY GATEWAY SCHOOL FOR TECHNOLOGY** — 0.2 mi away, 7.66% (this school: 11.72%)
- **STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 7.54% (this school: 11.72%)

### graduation rate
- **FOOD AND FINANCE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 93% (this school: 82%)
- **MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 95% (this school: 82%)
- **STEPHEN T MATHER BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIP HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 87% (this school: 82%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES** — 0.3 mi away, 89% (this school: 82%)
- **BEACON HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 97% (this school: 82%)

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