Public school / High
Columbia Secondary School
New York, New York
- NCES ID
- 360008105944
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Columbia Secondary School is a public high school in New York, New York, run by New York City Geographic District # 5. It enrols 690 students — the 19966th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
690
Teachers
49.0
Students per teacher
14.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
47.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within New York City Geographic District # 5
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Frederick Douglass Academy815 students
- 2Columbia Secondary School690 students
- 3High School Mathematics Science and Engineering at Ccny555 students
- 4Ps 161 Pedro Albizu Campos493 students
- 5Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning & Social Change479 students
- 6Ps 46 Arthur Tappan428 students
- 7Ps 123 Mahalia Jackson399 students
- 8Teachers College Community School326 students
- Enrollment+52.3%
- Teachers+32.4%
- Students per teacher+22.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−18.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory