# NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360016705891`
- **School name**: NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10031
- **Address**: 1818 AMSTERDAM AVE
- **District**: NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3600167`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 5–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 40.82880, -73.94540
- **Phone**: (212)283-5400
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7008624 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Heights_Academy_Charter_School
- **Founded**: 2006

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 673
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS ELP: 4
  - HS Grad Rate: 3
  - HS Core Performance: 3
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS Attendance: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 3
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - EM ELP: 3
  - EM Attendance: 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**: 91.0% (cohort of 96)
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 88)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 102.7% (795 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.0% (78 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.8% (91 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 89.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 7.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.5% — 103 students
- **English Learners**: 13.2% — 94 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,217
- **Federal share**: $0
- **State + local share**: $22,217
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 712
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,678,225

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,116
- **Poverty rate**: 31.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 39.0%
- **Unemployment**: 8.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,807
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.8 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 83
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.26 miles (SUGAR HILL)

### 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**: 6.96682 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 4.73% (this school: 10.96%)
- **WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.2 mi away, 6.83% (this school: 10.96%)
- **NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.96%)
- **COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS** — 0.4 mi away, 3.31% (this school: 10.96%)
- **THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 8.11% (this school: 10.96%)

### ela proficiency
- **PS 192 JACOB H SCHIFF** — 0.7 mi away, 63% (this school: 51%)
- **KIPP INFINITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 59% (this school: 51%)
- **CASTLE BRIDGE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 59% (this school: 51%)
- **TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 53% (this school: 51%)
- **KIPP ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 61% (this school: 51%)

### graduation rate
- **GREGORIO LUPERON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS** — 0.8 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)
- **KIPP INFINITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 94% (this school: 91%)
- **COLUMBIA SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 97% (this school: 91%)
- **BRONX SCHOOL FOR LAW GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE** — 1.4 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)
- **AECI II:  NYC CHARTER HS** — 1.6 mi away, 95% (this school: 91%)

### math proficiency
- **PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 61% (this school: 55%)
- **PS 192 JACOB H SCHIFF** — 0.7 mi away, 76% (this school: 55%)
- **KIPP INFINITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 71.2% (this school: 55%)
- **CASTLE BRIDGE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 59% (this school: 55%)
- **GLOBAL COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 58.75% (this school: 55%)

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