serve the highest-need and lowest-need students?

Which New York City schools serve the highest-need and lowest-need students? The charts below show how many of the city’s highest-need students are enrolled in each district and charter school in each of the city’s Community School Districts. The charts were created using a formula adapted from the Bloomberg administration’s progress reports’ “peer index.” Schools on the left side of the chart serve the largest proportions of high-need students; schools on the right side serve the smallest proportions in their district. Charter schools are highlighted in red, traditional public schools in blue and the horizontal red line represents the average student need in the district (meaning schools below the red line serve a smaller proportion of high-need students than the average school in their district) Updated Peer Index These data charts use an updated version of the Bloomberg DOE’s “peer index” formula to rank schools based on their students’ level of need using data from the new School Quality Reports. The index incorporates demographic information - such as the percent of students in a given school who live in poverty, are homeless or in temporary housing, or have disabilities - into a single value to determine which schools serve the most high-needs students. The DOE’s original peer index was useful, but since its creation additional information has become publicly available for elementary and K-8 students. Specifically, ways to capture the percentage of special education students who have needs that are so great that they require very small classes and other intensive services (referred to as “self-contained” students). Like poverty and overall special education status, as well as prior test scores, this information gives us a good indication of the challenges that students and schools face. Therefore, for elementary and K-8 schools, the original peer index has been refined to take advantage of this newly released public data about levels of student need from the School Quality Reports to indicate which schools serve the highest-need students. Elementary/K-8:

The DOE’s original peer index formula for elementary schools was based on schools’ enrollments of the following categories of students, and given the following weights: • • • •

English Language Learners: 10% Total Special Education Students (not broken down by levels of need): 30% Students Eligible for Free or Reduced Price Lunch: 30% Black or Hispanic Students: 30%

Which New York City schools serve the highest-need and lowest-need students

In this updated version, we have taken advantage of improved specificity in the data to provide a better sense of school’s enrollments of the highest-need students (noting special education students with disabilities that were so severe they had a right to be placed in “self-contained” classes). The updated formula uses the Nov. 2014 data released by the NYC DOE and following categories and weights: • • • •

Total Special Education Students (not broken down by levels of need): 20% Special Education Students who require self-contained classrooms: 20% Students Eligible for Free Lunch and/or Temporary Housing: 30% Black or Hispanic Students: 30%

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z CSD Average Need P.S. 77 Lower Lab

P.S. 006 Lillie D. Blake

P.S. 041 Greenwich Village

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P.S. 234 Independence Schl

P.S. 290 Manhattan New Schl

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P.S. 183 Robert L. Stevenson

Spruce Streeet Schl.

Battery Park City Schl.

P.S. 059 Beekman Hill Intl

P.S. 040 Augustus St-Gaudens

P.S. 158 Bayard Taylor

P.S. 003 Charrette School

P.S. 150

P.S. 212 Midtown West

P.S. 124 Yung Wing

P.S. 130 Hernando De Soto

P.S. 116 Mary L Murray

P.S. 011 William T. Harris

P.S./I.S. 217 Roosevelt Is.

Yorkville Community Schl

Ballet Tech

P.S. 042 Benjamin Altman

P.S. 033 Chelsea Prep

P.S. 198 Isador Ida Straus

P.S. 126 Jacob August Riis

Ella Baker School

P.S. 001 Alfred E. Smith

P.S. 002 Meyer London

P.S. 051 Elias Howe

P.S. 111 Adolph S. Ochs

47 Amer Sign Lower Schl


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The following schools as of Jan. 23, 2014, appear in NYC DOE databases as middle schools: Harlem Village Academy Leadership Charter School, Democracy Prep Harlem Charter School, Harlem Village Academy Charter School, and KIPP STAR College Prep Charter School, all in Community School District 5; Brooklyn Prospect Charter School in Community School District 15; and KIPP AMP Charter School in Community School District 17.

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CSD Average Need P.S. 024 Spuyten Duyvil

P.S. 081 Robt J. Christen

Ampark Neighborhood

P.S. 056 Norwood Hghts

Highest Need

P.S. 051 Bx New School

Bronx Community Charter

PS/MS 20 G. J. Werdann

P.S. 095 Sheila Mencher

P.S./M.S. 280

P.S. 015

Luisa Pineiro Fuentes

P.S. 008 Issac Varian

P.S. 094 Kings College

P.S. 159 L.Munoz Marin

P.S. 086 Kingsbridge Hgts

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P.S. 315 Lab School

P.S. 205 Fiorello Laguardia

P.S. 306

P.S. 246 Poe Center

P.S. 3 Raul Julia

P.S. 360

Schl. for Math, Sci. & Tech

P.S. 310 Marble Hill

P.S. 033 Timothy Dwight

P.S. 032 Belmont

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P.S. 031 Wm T. Davis P.S. 020 Port Richmond P.S. 044 Thomas Brown P.S. 018 John Whittier P.S. 74 Future Leaders P.S. 014 C. Vanderbilt P.S. 057 H. Humphrey P.S. 016 John Driscoll P.S. 21 M. E-Elm Park P.S. 022 Graniteville P.S. 019 Curtis Staten Is. Comm. Charter P.S. 046 Al. Maniscalco P.S. 013 M.Lindemeyer P.S. 045 John Tyler P.S. 11 Thos. Dongan S.I.Schl of Civic Leadership P.S. 65 Innov.Learning P.S. 038 Geo. Cromwell P.S. 026 Carteret P.S. 39 Francis Murphy P.S. 041 New Dorp P.S. 060 Alice Austen P.S. 054 Charles Leng Space Shuttle Columbia Petrides P.S. 052 John Thompson P.S. 35 Clove Valley P.S. 069 Danl.Tompkins P.S. 030 Westerleigh P.S. 023 Richmondtown P.S. 029 Bardwell P.S. 001 Tottenville P.S. 004 Maurice Wollin P.S. 8 Shirlee Solomon P.S. 048 William Wilcox P.S. 053 Bay Terrace P.S. 032 Gifford P.S. 56 Louis Desario P.S. 6 Cpl Allan Kivlehan P.S. 050 F. Hankinson P.S. 042 Eltingville P.S. 055 HenryBoehm P.S. 003 M. Gioiosa P.S. 036 Drumgoole P.S. 005 Huguenot



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