# HIGH SCHOOL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATIONS

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360009805829`
- **School name**: HIGH SCHOOL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATIONS
- **Location**: LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101
- **Address**: 30-20 THOMSON AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #24 (LEAID `3600098`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.74480, -73.93690
- **Phone**: (718)389-3163

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 380
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.9%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 96)
- **2019**: 97.0% (cohort of 81)
- **2018**: 87.0% (cohort of 99)
- **2017**: 82.0% (cohort of 81)
- **2016**: 82.0% (cohort of 108)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 32.4% (128 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 31.3% (129 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**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 68.3%
- **Black/African American**: 13.6%
- **Asian**: 7.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 2.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.7% — 73 students
- **English Learners**: 7.0% — 29 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 38 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 27 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 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)
- **Poverty rate**: 100.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 0.0%
- **Unemployment**: 100.0%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 72.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.3 miles (MEEKER AVENUE PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 30
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 151
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.56 miles (NELSON FOUNDRY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PINE TREE VILLAGE MHP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.89741 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ACADEMY OF FINANCE AND ENTERPRISE** — 0.0 mi away, 0.85% (this school: 1.7%)
- **BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS** — 0.0 mi away, 0.45% (this school: 1.7%)
- **MIDDLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE** — 0.2 mi away, 1.41% (this school: 1.7%)
- **AVIATION CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.7%)
- **ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES** — 0.5 mi away, 0.64% (this school: 1.7%)

### graduation rate
- **ACADEMY OF AMERICAN STUDIES** — 0.5 mi away, 93% (this school: 87%)
- **INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 88% (this school: 87%)
- **ENERGY TECH HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 92% (this school: 87%)
- **A-TECH HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 91% (this school: 87%)
- **ART AND DESIGN HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 97% (this school: 87%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/high-school-of-applied-communications-long-island-city/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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