COLUMBIA SECONDARY SCHOOL
NEW YORK · NY · NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5 · Public · K-12 combined
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- 📚 6 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 3 calculus classes · 4 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 70th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 54th 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 COLUMBIA SECONDARY SCHOOL compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 70th percentile nationally with 6 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: URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, WADLEIGH PERF AND VISUAL ARTS 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
70th 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 · 2020-2154th 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
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 +2.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 714 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS NEW YORK |
Public | 0.3 | 178 | -46.4% |
| HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public · charter | 0.4 | 259 | +8.4% |
| WADLEIGH PERF AND VISUAL ARTS NEW YORK |
Public | 0.6 | 278 | -13.1% |
| FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY II SECONDARY SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public | 0.6 | 259 | -1.5% |
| A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public | 0.6 | 1,401 | -5.6% |
| KIPP INFINITY CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public · charter | 0.6 | 960 | -1.8% |
| OPPORTUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public · charter | 0.6 | 228 | -19.1% |
| DEMOCRACY PREP HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public · charter | 0.6 | 364 | -0.5% |