FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL
NEW YORK · NY · NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 · Public
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- 📚 21 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 16 calculus classes · 20 physics · 26 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 90th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 94th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 99% (Top 0.7% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL compares for families
Standout academic depth by national standards.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 10% nationally with 21 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: HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE, HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY, MANHATTAN/HUNTER SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL 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
90th 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 · 2020-2194th 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?
Top 0.7% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
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
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
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.
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 -1.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 2,251 students:
≈ 204 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE NEW YORK |
Public | 0.1 | 531 | +34.1% |
| HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY NEW YORK |
Public | 0.1 | 391 | -12.9% |
| MANHATTAN/HUNTER SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public | 0.1 | 447 | +3.2% |
| URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MEDIA STUDIES NEW YORK |
Public | 0.1 | 331 | -9.6% |
| SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public | 0.2 | 176 | +0.0% |
| WEST END SECONDARY SCHOOL NEW YORK |
Public | 0.2 | 422 | -0.5% |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel School New York |
Private | 0.2 | 910 | +4.4% |
| Collegiate School New York |
Private | 0.3 | 662 | +0.6% |