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New York City Public Schools

The New York City public school system contains 404 high schools. The district contains 127 schools that received gold, silver or bronze medals in U.S. News's Best High Schools rankings.

All Schools in District

State Rank School College Readiness Math (Avg. Proficiency) English (Avg. Proficiency)
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Brooklyn International High School at Waters Edge
49 FLATBUSH AVE EXT
BROOKLYN, NY 11201

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N/A Tested (N/A)

N/A Passed (N/A)

1.8
Below NY Avg

27% Proficient

73% Not Proficient

3.0
Near NY Avg

90% Proficient

10% Not Proficient

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English Language Learners And International Suppor
99 TERRACE VIEW AVE
BRONX, NY 10463

N/A
N/A

N/A Tested (N/A)

N/A Passed (N/A)

1.7
Below NY Avg

17% Proficient

83% Not Proficient

2.3
Below NY Avg

50% Proficient

50% Not Proficient

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New Day Academy
800 HOME ST
BRONX, NY 10456

N/A
N/A

N/A Tested (N/A)

N/A Passed (N/A)

1.6
Below NY Avg

17% Proficient

83% Not Proficient

2.8
Below NY Avg

84% Proficient

16% Not Proficient

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Urban Action Academy
1600 ROCKAWAY PARKWAY
BROOKLYN, NY 11236

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N/A

N/A Tested (N/A)

N/A Passed (N/A)

1.3
Below NY Avg

0% Proficient

100% Not Proficient

1.0
Below NY Avg

0% Proficient

100% Not Proficient

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English Math School Name
3.99 3.66 Queens High School for the Sciences at York College
3.99 3.92 Stuyvesant High School
3.99 3.88 The Bronx High School of Science
3.97 3.95 High School for Math, Science and Engineering at CCNY
3.97 4.0 Townsend Harris High School
3.96 3.92 Staten Island Technical High School
3.9 3.99 The High School of American Studies at Lehman College
3.88 3.89 Brooklyn Technical High School
3.73 3.72 Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
3.72 3.58 The Baccalaureate School for Global Education
3.7 3.69 Eleanor Roosevelt High School
3.7 3.29 High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies
3.69 3.74 The Brooklyn Latin School
3.63 3.76 New Explorations Into Science,Technology and Math High School
3.62 3.44 NYC Lab High School for Collaborative Studies
3.59 3.58 Bard High School Early College
3.58 3.61 Baruch College Campus High School
3.54 3.62 Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences
3.53 3.03 Lower East Side Preparatory High School
3.53 3.84 Scholars' Academy
3.5 3.1 El Puente Academy For Peace And Justice
3.47 3.36 Millennium High School
3.47 3.3 Queens Gateway To Health Sciences Secondary School
3.42 3.65 Bard High School Early College Ii
3.41 3.68 Beacon High School
3.36 3.4 Manhattan Village Academy
3.36 3.43 Midwood High School
3.35 3.21 Manhattan Center For Science & Mathematics
3.34 3.38 Benjamin N. Cardozo High School
3.33 3.35 Bayside High School
3.33 3.29 School Of The Future High School
3.28 3.37 Francis Lewis High School
3.28 3.44 Academy of American Studies
3.27 3.62 Benjamin Banneker Academy
3.21 3.44 Frederick Douglass Academy
3.21 3.22 Aviation Career And Technical High School
3.21 3.2 Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School
3.2 3.27 Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics
3.2 3.3 High School For Environmental Studies
3.2 3.44 Manhattan/Hunter Science High School
3.19 3.34 Bedford Academy High School
3.19 3.33 Medgar Evers College Preperatory School
3.19 3.26 High Sch-Construction, Trades, Engineering & Archi
3.19 3.84 Nyc Museum School
3.19 3.36 Edward R Murrow High School
3.18 3.25 Forest Hills High School
3.18 3.27 Talent Unlimited High School
3.17 3.22 Thomas A Edison Career And Technical High School
3.15 3.21 Knowledge And Power Prep Academy International Hig
3.15 2.99 Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School
3.14 3.33 Science, Tech & Research High School at Erasmus
3.14 3.26 Tottenville High School
3.13 3.21 Collegiate Institute for Math and Science
3.13 3.23 Brooklyn College Academy
3.12 3.22 Professional Performing Arts High School
3.11 3.21 A Philip Randolph Campus High School
3.11 2.73 Newcomers High School
3.11 2.89 Manhattan International High School
3.1 3.2 High School Of Economics & Finance
3.1 3.2 Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science
3.1 3.17 The High School Of Fashion Industries
3.1 3.24 Fort Hamilton High School
3.09 3.22 Hostos-Lincoln Academy of Science
3.09 3.1 South Bronx Preparatory - A College Board School
3.09 3.37 Csi High School For International Studies
3.08 3.22 Channel View School For Research
3.08 3.37 The Michael J Petrides School
3.07 2.95 Franklin D Roosevelt High School
3.06 3.27 Pace High School
3.04 3.36 James Madison High School
3.04 3.25 Bronx Health Sciences High School
3.04 3.15 Theatre Arts Production Company School
3.04 3.27 Susan E Wagner High School
3.03 3.24 High School of Telecommunications Arts and Technology
3.03 3.38 Young Women'S Leadership School
3.03 3.14 It Takes A Village Academy
3.02 3.11 Young Women'S Leadership School of Queens
3.02 3.17 Hs For Public Service-Heroes Of Tomorrow
3.02 3.03 Liberty High School Academy For Newcomers
3.02 3.06 William Cullen Bryant High School
3.01 3.28 Pelham Preparatory Academy
3.01 2.9 Fordham High School For The Arts
3.0 3.11 High School For Health Professions & Human Service
3.0 3.52 World Journalism Preparatory
3.0 3.26 All City Leadership Secondary School
3.0 3.16 Bronx School Of Law And Finance
3.0 2.98 East New York Family Academy
3.0 3.25 Academy for Conservation and the Environment
3.0 3.04 Brooklyn High School Of The Arts
3.0 3.02 East-West School Of International Studies
2.99 3.25 In Tech Academy (Ms/Hs 368)
2.99 3.26 John Dewey High School
2.99 3.06 Marble Hill High School Of International Studies
2.99 3.38 Robert F Kennedy Community High School
2.99 3.16 Teachers Preperatory High School
2.99 2.78 High School Of Contemporary Arts
2.99 3.05 New Utrecht High School
2.97 3.27 Academy Of Finance And Enterprise
2.97 3.1 Women'S Academy Of Excellence
2.96 3.19 Discovery High School
2.96 2.88 Academy for Social Action-A College Board School
2.96 2.04 Multicultural High School
2.96 3.1 New Dorp High School
2.96 2.89 Park East High School
2.94 2.71 Manhattan Bridges High School
2.94 3.19 High School Of Enterprise, Business & Technology
2.94 3.04 Urban Assembly School For Careers In Sports
2.94 3.25 Brooklyn Studio Secondary School
2.94 3.03 Math/Science Research and Technology Magnet High School
2.94 3.17 Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy (Ms/High School 141)
2.94 2.88 Urban Assembly School Of Design And Construction
2.93 2.93 Academy for Language and Technology
2.93 3.16 Dr Susan S Mckinney Secondary School Of The Arts
2.93 3.09 High School Of Computers And Technology
2.93 3.35 Williamsburg Preparatory School
2.92 3.05 Mott Hall Bronx High School
2.92 3.1 Urban Assembly School For Law And Justice
2.91 3.12 Transit Tech Career And Technical Education
2.91 3.23 Art And Design High School
2.91 2.55 Flushing International High School
2.91 2.99 High School for Service and Learning at Erasmus
2.91 2.51 International School For Liberal Arts
2.91 2.9 John Bowne High School
2.91 2.9 Murry Bergtraum High School For Business Careers
2.9 3.12 Bronx Academy Of Letters
2.9 2.99 High School For Arts And Business
2.9 2.8 Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics
2.9 3.04 High School Of Sports Management
2.9 2.97 School For Human Rights (The)
2.9 3.3 Curtis High School
2.89 2.99 High School For Law & Public Service
2.89 3.05 Central Park East High School
2.89 2.91 Eagle Academy For Young Men
2.89 3.0 High School Of Hospitality Management
2.89 3.13 Long Island City High School
2.89 2.85 Unity Center For Urban Technologies
2.88 3.14 Queens Vocational And Technical High School
2.88 2.87 High School Of Arts And Technology
2.88 3.2 Robert F Wagner Jr Secondary School-Arts and Techn
2.87 3.32 Academy For Young Writers
2.87 3.07 Bronx Aerospace High School
2.87 3.05 Clara Barton High School
2.87 3.16 East Side Community School
2.87 3.17 Information Technology High School
2.87 3.1 University Heights Secondary School
2.87 2.91 American Sign Language & English School
2.87 3.15 Institute For Collaborative Education
2.87 2.59 New World High School
2.86 3.21 Rachel Carson High School For Coastal Studies
2.86 3.1 Bronx High School For Medical Science
2.86 3.17 George Washington Carver High School for the Scien
2.85 2.87 Explorations Academy
2.85 3.28 Humanities Preparatory Academy
2.85 3.41 Thurgood Marshall Academy For Learning & Social Ch
2.85 2.92 Williamsburg High School For Architecture And Desi
2.85 2.78 Bronx Engineering And Technology Academy
2.85 2.72 Ebc/Eny High School For Public Safety
2.85 2.89 Pathways College Preparatory School
2.85 2.98 Queens High School of Teaching, Liberal Arts and S
2.85 2.86 Richard R Green High School Of Teaching
2.84 3.04 Secondary School For Law
2.84 2.83 Acad For College Prep & Career Exploration: A Coll
2.84 3.07 Science Skills Center High School at Waters Edge
2.84 2.87 Urban Assembly School Of Business For Young Women
2.83 3.07 High School For International-Business & Finance
2.83 3.07 High School For Law, Advocacy And Community Justic
2.83 3.21 New Design High School
2.83 3.05 Bronx School For Law Government And Justice
2.83 2.91 Bronx Theatre High School
2.83 2.92 Flushing High School
2.83 2.99 International High School At Laguardia
2.83 3.1 Urban Assembly School For Media Studies
2.82 3.09 Abraham Lincoln High School
2.82 2.91 Belmont Prep High School
2.82 2.89 Brooklyn Community High Sch-Communication, Arts &
2.82 2.91 Herbert H Lehman High School
2.82 3.09 Hillcrest High School
2.82 3.05 Leadership & Public Service High School
2.82 2.94 Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts
2.81 3.4 Eximius College Preparatory Academy
2.81 3.12 Bronx Academy Of Health Careers
2.81 3.36 Bronx Latin School
2.81 3.05 Mott Hall High School
2.81 2.84 Frederick Douglas Academy Ii Secondary School
2.81 3.12 Grover Cleveland High School
2.81 2.91 Queens Preparatory Academy
2.8 3.01 Academy For Environmental Leadership
2.8 3.1 Health Opportunities High School
2.8 2.92 Acorn Community High School
2.8 2.96 Hs For Law Enforcement And Public Safety
2.8 2.51 International High School At Prospect Heights
2.8 3.2 Queens High School for Information, Research and T
2.79 3.15 High School For Teaching And The Professions
2.79 3.05 Brooklyn School For Music & Theater
2.79 3.11 John Adams High School
2.79 2.94 Henry Street School For International Studies
2.79 2.95 Peace And Diversity Academy
2.79 2.88 Secondary School For Research
2.79 2.84 Sheepshead Bay High School
2.78 2.83 Harry S Truman High School
2.78 2.54 Kingsbridge International High School
2.78 3.08 Leadership Institute
2.78 3.09 Port Richmond High School
2.78 2.93 Ralph R Mckee Career And Technical High School
2.78 2.66 Secondary School For Journalism
2.77 3.09 Life Sciences Secondary School
2.76 3.37 Renaissance High School For Musical Theater And Te
2.76 3.2 Urban Assembly Academy Of Government And Law
2.76 3.28 Food And Finance High School
2.76 2.82 Bronx Guild High School
2.76 2.96 Brownsville Academy High School
2.76 2.79 Concord High School
2.76 2.96 Ebc High School For Public Service
2.76 3.08 High School Of Applied Communications
2.76 3.07 Millenium Art Academy
2.76 2.89 Progress High School For Professional Careers
2.75 2.75 Arts And Media Preparatory Academy
2.75 3.12 Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School
2.75 3.67 Emma Lazarus High School
2.75 2.86 Excelsior Preparatorty High School
2.75 2.97 Humanities And Arts Magnet High School
2.75 2.0 International Community High School
2.75 3.12 Life Academy High School For Film And Music
2.74 3.71 Repertory Company High School For Theatre Arts
2.74 2.91 High School For Health Careers & Sciences
2.74 2.89 Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis High School
2.74 2.87 Martin Van Buren High School
2.74 2.93 School For Excellence
2.74 2.99 School For International Studies
2.74 2.89 School for Legal Studies
2.74 2.86 University Neighborhood High School
2.73 2.9 Academy For Scholarship And Entreneurship
2.73 2.83 Bronx High School For The Visual Arts
2.73 2.62 Brooklyn Generation School
2.73 3.08 Urban Assembly For The Performing Arts
2.72 3.19 The Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music
2.72 3.0 Academy Of Hospitality And Tourism
2.72 2.99 Brooklyn Academy Of Science And The Environment
2.72 3.12 Brooklyn Preparatory High School
2.72 2.7 Foreign Language Academy Of Global Studies
2.72 2.67 Frederick Douglass Academy Iv Secondary School
2.72 2.91 High School For Media & Communications
2.72 2.7 High School For Youth And Community Development
2.72 2.83 Holcombe L Rucker School Of Community Research
2.72 2.83 Metropolitan High School (The)
2.72 2.97 Middle College High School At Laguardia
2.72 2.88 Newtown High School
2.72 2.84 Victory Collegiate High School
2.71 2.85 High School For Civil Rights
2.71 3.16 Law, Government and Community Service High School
2.7 2.8 Academy Of Urban Planning
2.7 2.97 Bushwick School For Social Justice
2.7 2.89 Cascades High School
2.7 2.99 Chelsea Career And Technical Education High School
2.7 3.13 Freedom Academy High School
2.7 2.87 Lyons Community School
2.7 2.78 Queens Academy High School
2.7 2.85 Richmond Hill High School
2.69 2.89 Bronx Coalition Community High School
2.69 3.05 High School 560 City-As-School
2.69 2.73 Wings Academy
2.68 2.85 Choir Academy Of Harlem
2.68 2.76 Dewitt Clinton High School
2.68 2.96 Frederick Douglas Academy Vii High School
2.67 2.74 Bronx High School Of Business
2.67 2.83 Bronx Lab School
2.67 3.09 Bronx Leadership Academy High School
2.67 2.8 Crotona Academy High School
2.67 2.79 Jamaica High School
2.67 2.79 Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School
2.66 2.69 Acorn High School for Social Justice
2.66 2.78 Fordham Leadership Academy for Business & Technolo
2.66 3.01 Frederick Douglas Academy Vi High School
2.66 3.06 Gramercy Arts High School
2.66 3.04 Lower Manhattan Arts Academy
2.66 2.74 Marie Curie High Sch-Nursing, Medicine & Applied H
2.66 2.71 Pablo Neruda Academy For Architecture And World St
2.66 2.8 Validus Preparatory Academy
2.66 2.8 Vanguard High School
2.65 2.93 Monroe Academy For Visual Arts & Design
2.65 3.11 Preparatory Academy For Writers
2.64 2.62 Bronx Regional High School
2.64 2.81 East Bronx Academy For The Future
2.64 2.88 Foundations Academy
2.64 2.81 High School Of Graphic Communication Arts
2.63 2.77 Bronx International High School
2.63 2.73 Business/Computer Applications & Entrepreneurship
2.63 2.8 Norman Thomas High School
2.63 2.9 School For Democracy And Leadership
2.62 2.85 Brooklyn Academy High School
2.62 2.85 Brooklyn Collegiate-A College Board School
2.62 2.72 Cypress Hills Collegiate Preparatory School
2.62 3.0 Expeditionary Learning School For Community Leader
2.62 2.82 Heritage School (The)
2.62 2.74 High School For Global Citizenship (The)
2.62 2.78 Voyages Preparatory
2.61 2.73 George Westinghouse Career & Technical Ed High Sch
2.61 2.84 Innovation Diploma Plus
2.61 2.84 Paul Robeson High School
2.6 2.58 Alfred E Smith Career And Technical High School
2.6 2.88 High School For Violin And Dance
2.6 2.76 International Arts Business School
2.6 2.8 Marta Valle Secondary School
2.6 2.73 Morris Academy For Collaborative Studies
2.6 2.88 Performing Arts And Technology High School
2.6 2.59 West Bronx Academy For The Future
2.6 3.22 World Academy For Total Community Health
2.59 2.48 Christopher Columbus High School
2.59 2.99 Dreamyard Preparatory School
2.59 2.44 Franklin K Lane High School
2.59 2.93 New York Harbor School
2.59 2.75 Samuel Gompers Career And Technical Education High
2.59 2.74 The Urban Assembly School of Music and Art at Wate
2.58 2.79 August Martin High School
2.58 2.67 Bronx Leadership Academy Ii High School
2.58 2.98 Frederick Douglas Academy Iii Secondary School
2.58 2.8 Green School: An Academy For Environmental Careers
2.58 2.7 South Brooklyn Community High School
2.58 2.9 Washington Irving High School
2.57 2.73 Edward A Reynolds West Side High School
2.57 2.72 Gateway School For Environmental Research And Tech
2.57 2.44 John F Kennedy High School
2.56 2.69 Boys And Girls High School
2.56 2.81 Global Enterprise High School
2.56 2.69 High School For Arts, Imagination And Inquiry
2.56 2.85 Jane Addams High School For Academic Careers
2.56 2.52 Monroe Academy for Business/Law
2.55 2.72 Astor Collegiate Academy
2.55 2.67 Bread & Roses Integrated Arts High School
2.54 2.61 Bronx Expeditionary Learning High School
2.54 2.86 Felisa Rincon De Gautier Institute For Law And Pub
2.54 2.5 High School Of World Cultures
2.54 2.59 Louis D Brandeis High School
2.54 2.74 W H Maxwell Career And Technical Education High Sc
2.53 2.62 Bedford Stuyvesant Prep High School
2.53 2.95 Bronx High School For Writing And Communication Ar
2.53 2.72 Independence High School
2.52 2.67 Bushwick Leaders High School for Academic Excellence
2.52 2.79 William E Grady Career and Technical Education Hig
2.51 2.83 Banana Kelly High School
2.51 2.43 Bronx High School-Law And Community Services
2.51 2.65 West Brooklyn Community High School
2.5 2.84 Gotham Professional Arts Academy
2.5 2.84 Metropolitan Corporate Academy High School
2.5 3.32 Urban Academy Laboratory High School
2.49 2.78 Coalition School For Social Change
2.49 2.56 Legacy School For Integrated Studies
2.49 2.82 Manhattan Theatre Lab High School
2.49 2.74 North Queens Community High School
2.48 2.52 Bronx Haven High School
2.48 2.31 International High School At Lafayette
2.47 2.5 Brooklyn High School For Leadership And Community
2.47 2.45 Hs 560 Bronx Academy High School
2.47 2.56 Juan Morel Campos Secondary School
2.47 2.27 Pan American International High School
2.46 2.65 Beach Channel High School
2.46 2.71 Fdny High School For Fire And Life Safety
2.45 2.45 Jonathan Levin High School Of Media And Communications
2.44 2.61 Far Rockaway High School
2.44 2.85 James Baldwin School-A School for Expeditionary Lr
2.43 2.54 Canarsie High School
2.43 2.69 Pacific High School
2.43 2.77 Providing Urban Learners Success In Education High
2.42 2.58 Academy Of Environmental Science Secondary School
2.42 2.96 Liberation Diploma Plus
2.42 2.72 Mott Haven Village Prep High School
2.4 3.01 Cobble Hill School Of American Studies
2.39 2.52 Grace H Dodge Career And Technical High School
2.39 2.51 Olympus Academy
2.38 2.16 Brooklyn Bridge Academy
2.37 2.78 Automotive High School
2.37 2.9 Brooklyn School For Global Studies
2.36 2.64 Bronx Community High School
2.36 2.98 Facing History School (The)
2.35 2.49 School For Community Research And Learning
2.34 2.4 Jill Chaifetz Transfer High School
2.33 2.59 Bayard Rustin Educational Complex
2.33 2.68 Urban Assembly Acad-History And Citizenship For Yo
2.32 2.57 Metropolitan Diploma Plus High School
2.32 2.65 New Explorers High School
2.29 2.8 Harlem Renaissence High School
2.27 2.67 The Bronx Preparatory Academy
2.26 2.35 W E B Dubois Academic High School
2.25 2.27 Aspirations Diploma Plus High School
2.2 2.63 Brooklyn Democracy Academy
2.2 2.57 East Brooklyn Community High School
2.2 2.65 Landmark High School
2.19 2.85 Essex Street Academy
2.16 2.42 Performance Conservatory High School
2.14 2.52 Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom School
2.11 3.14 Harvey Milk High School
2.09 2.08 Queens Satellite High School
2.08 2.49 Bushwick Community High School
2.03 3.18 Brooklyn Secondary School For Collaborative Studie
2.0 3.0 Brooklyn Lab School
2.0 2.0 Cultural Academy For The Arts And Sciences
1.97 2.92 Satellite Academy High School
1.94 2.31 Arturo Schomburg Satellite Academy-Bronx
1.93 3.0 Community School For Social Justice
1.76 3.04 Brooklyn International High School at Waters Edge
1.67 2.25 English Language Learners And International Suppor
1.57 2.8 New Day Academy
1.33 1.0 Urban Action Academy

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