Public school / High
Union Square Academy for Health Sciences
New York, New York
- NCES ID
- 360007706309
- School type
- Vocational
- Title I
- Not designated
Union Square Academy for Health Sciences is a public high school in New York, New York, run by New York City Geographic District # 2. It enrols 468 students — the 41396th 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
468
Teachers
40.0
Students per teacher
11.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
84.4%
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 # 2
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.
- 1Stuyvesant High School3,334 students
- 2High School for Health Professions & Human Services1,627 students
- 3High School of Fashion Industries (the)1,623 students
- 4Art and Design High School1,469 students
- 5High School for Environmental Studies1,083 students
- 6Jhs 167 Robert F Wagner1,019 students
- 7Jhs 104 Simon Baruch891 students
- 8Clinton School (the)786 students
- Enrollment+3.3%
- Teachers+8.1%
- Students per teacher+1.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+44.8%
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