MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS
NEW YORK · NY · NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4 · Public
📄 Shareable scorecard →📋 At a glance
- 📚 16 AP courses offered — Elite
- 🔢 13 calculus classes · 11 physics · 16 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 82th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 85th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 97% (90th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 18% nationally with 16 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: ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY, HARLEM PREP CHARTER SCHOOL, URBAN DOVE TEAM CHARTER SCHOOL IV and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
82th 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 · 2020-2185th percentile 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?
90th 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
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
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 +2.3%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,657 students:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY NEW YORK |
Public | 0.5 | 347 | +22.2% |
| HARLEM PREP CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public · charter | 0.5 | 402 | +4.1% |
| URBAN DOVE TEAM CHARTER SCHOOL IV NEW YORK |
Public · charter | 0.5 | 182 | -6.7% |
| EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public · charter | 0.6 | 438 | +39.9% |
| PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public | 0.6 | 398 | +9.0% |
| Cooke School New York |
Private | 0.7 | 288 | -2.7% |
| HERITAGE SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK |
Public | 0.7 | 222 | -31.3% |
| EDWARD A REYNOLDS WEST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public | 0.7 | 348 | +19.6% |