HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY
NEW YORK · NY · NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 · Public
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- 📚 5 AP courses offered — Strong
- 🎓 AP rigor: 58th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 34% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 92% (60th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 58th percentile nationally with 5 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyNY sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: LANDMARK HIGH SCHOOL, JAMES BALDWIN SCHOOL-A SCHOOL FOR EXPEDITIONARY LRNING, MANHATTAN BUSINESS ACADEMY and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
58th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 34% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
60th percentile nationally
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -0.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 261 students:
≈ 2 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LANDMARK HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public | 0.0 | 288 | -18.2% |
| JAMES BALDWIN SCHOOL-A SCHOOL FOR EXPEDITIONARY LRNING NEW YORK |
Public | 0.0 | 138 | -6.1% |
| MANHATTAN BUSINESS ACADEMY NEW YORK |
Public | 0.0 | 441 | +9.2% |
| QUEST TO LEARN NEW YORK |
Public | 0.0 | 210 | -36.0% |
| HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES NEW YORK |
Public | 0.0 | 189 | -38.4% |
| NYC LAB HIGH SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES NEW YORK |
Public | 0.1 | 413 | -14.8% |
| NYC MUSEUM SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public | 0.1 | 481 | -3.6% |
| LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMY FOR NEWCOMERS NEW YORK |
Public | 0.2 | 460 | +45.6% |