# HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-for-environmental-studies-new-york

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007700116`
- **School name**: HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10019
- **Address**: 444 W 56TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (LEAID `3600077`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.76791, -73.98838
- **Phone**: (212)262-8113
- **Wikidata QID**: Q16975684 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_for_Environmental_Studies
- **Founded**: 1992

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,007
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 74
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.1%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 89.0% (cohort of 247)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 27.3% (324 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.2% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.6% (48 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 44.6% (470 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**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 62.1%
- **Black/African American**: 11.9%
- **Asian**: 13.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 9.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 2.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 70.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.2% — 223 students
- **English Learners**: 9.5% — 100 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 134 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 53 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 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**: $106,915
- **Poverty rate**: 6.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 81.0%
- **Unemployment**: 5.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,412
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.5 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 160
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.16 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**: 2.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 452** — 0.3 mi away, 1.03% (this school: 2.18%)
- **PS 35** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.18%)
- **SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HELL'S KITCHEN** — 0.3 mi away, 1.3% (this school: 2.18%)
- **WEST END SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 1.39% (this school: 2.18%)
- **PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING ARTS HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0.97% (this school: 2.18%)

### graduation rate
- **FOOD AND FINANCE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 93% (this school: 89%)
- **MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 95% (this school: 89%)
- **WEST END SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 99% (this school: 89%)
- **FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 97% (this school: 89%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE** — 0.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 89%)

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