Enrollment
Enrollment (official register) in New York City public schools.
Indicators
CCC maintains more than 150 data sets on New York City’s children and families. The datasets, ranging from topics such as population through child welfare, attempts to capture a holistic view of the well-being of New York’s children throughout all communities.
Education
Student Characteristics
English Language Learners
Students designated as English language learners.
Students Living in Temporary Housing
Public school students (including charter schools) who identified as homeless anytime during the school year, even if they are no longer experiencing homelessness at the end of the school year.
Students with Disabilities (IEP)
Students with disabilities are defined as any child receiving an IEP as of the end of the school year.
Student Racial/Ethnic Diversity
Diversity refers to the racial/ethnic makeup of students at schools within a specific geography, using the DOE's categories of Asian, Black, Hispanic, White, and Multiple Race Categories Not Repr ...
Student Economic Status
"Poverty" counts are based on the number of students with families who have qualified for free or reduced price lunch, or are eligible for Human Resources Administration (HRA) benefits.
School Characteristics
Attendance
Data prior to 2014 represent the average school year attendance rate, while data from 2014 onward represent the total number of days students were present in school divided by the total number of ...
Chronic Absenteeism
Students are considered chronically absent if they have an attendance rate less than 90 percent (i.e. students who are absent 10 percent or more of the total days). In order to be included in chr ...
School Utilization and Overcrowding
Utilization Rate is enrollment shown as a percentage of capacity. Overcrowded Schools is the percentage of schools in a geography where enrollment exceeds capacity.
Teacher Certification
Teaching Out of Certification refers to the number of individuals teaching out of their subject/field of certification. No Valid Certificate refers to the number of individuals without valid teac ...
Teacher Experience
Fewer Than 4 Years Experience refers to the number of teachers with fewer than four years of teaching experience for school years 2018 through 2020; and refers to the number of teachers with fewe ...
School Staff Demographics
Teachers include staff in a teacher title. Leadership includes Principals and Assistant Principals.Other staff includes any other pedagogic staff (aside from teachers and leadership), paraprofess ...
School District Racial/Ethnic Representativeness
Following recommendations laid out by the Mayor's School Diversity Advisory Group (SDAG), this data explores the extent to which New York City public schools are racially/ethnically representativ ...
Student Economic Need Index
The school’s Economic Need Index is the average of its students’ Economic Need Values. The Economic Need Index (ENI) estimates the percentage of students facing economic hardship.
School Meals
Breakfast ADP: the average daily number of breakfasts served in the cafeteria by the department before the school day begins. Lunch ADP: the average daily number of lunches served by the departme ...
Student Discipline
Data for total student discipline include: principal suspensions, lasting 1 to 5 days; superintendent suspensions, which exceed 5 days; and removals of students from the classroom by a teacher. R ...
Student Performance Metrics
High School ELA Proficiency
Public high school students meeting proficiency standards in English Language Arts (ELA) after 4 years of instruction.
High School Math Proficiency
Public high school students meeting proficiency standards in Math after 4 years of instruction.
Reading Test Scores (3rd through 8th Grades)
Number and Percent Passing refer to third through eighth graders who performed at or above grade level (scoring at level 3 or 4) on New York State standardized reading tests. Mean Score is the av ...
Math Test Scores (3rd through 8th Grades)
Number and Percent Passing refer to third through eighth graders who performed at or above grade level (scoring at level 3 or 4) on New York State standardized reading tests. Mean Score is the av ...
Graduation Outcomes
Graduation Rate
New York City public high school students who graduated as of June after four years or six years of instruction. Six-year graduation rate data represent graduation rates for the cohort entering 6 ...
Dropout Rate
New York City public high school students who had dropped out as of June after four years or six years of instruction. Six-year dropout rate data represent dropout rates for the cohort entering 6 ...
College Readiness
The college readiness rate shows the percentage of students in the school’s four-year cohort who, by the August after their fourth year in high school, graduated with a Local Diploma or higher an ...
Postsecondary Enrollment
The postsecondary enrollment rate shows the percentage of students who graduated and enrolled in a two- or four-year college, vocational program, approved apprenticeship or public service within ...
College Persistence
The college persistence rate shows the percentage of students in the six-year cohort who graduated, enrolled, and persisted in college through the beginning of their third semester, within six ye ...