At a Glance
An ultra-selective screened high school where near-zero suspensions and parent-principal trust approaching 99% define the culture.
Best suited for
Academically strong students who thrive in a calm, college-oriented screened environment and whose families are comfortable with an intense admissions process and a commute from outside the immediate neighborhood.
Overall Rating
Rating = average of 4-year graduation, English Regents college-ready and Regents completion · DOE 2025 report
Bands are Motley's thresholds on a 0–100 scale, not New York State performance levels.
How this is scored→What stands out
- 1.6% offer rate makes this one of the hardest NYC public high schools to get into — 5,332 applicants for 88 seats.
- Zero suspensions across the entire school is exceptionally rare for a high school of any size.
- 99% parent-principal trust and 96% parent-teacher trust signal rare alignment between leadership and families.
- Baruch College affiliation gives the school its name and an academic identity distinct from a generic zoned high school.
- 96% teacher-reported instruction quality sits well above the district average.
Things to consider
- Admissions are brutally competitive — strong middle school grades and test scores are essentially required, and most applicants will not get in.
- PTA fundraising totals about $265 per student, roughly half the district average, which may limit enrichment budgets.
- The neighborhood has very few families with children (9.2% of households), so friendships and social life tend to be school-based rather than neighborhood-based.
- Family survey response rate is only 23%, so the otherwise glowing parent numbers come from a self-selecting subset of families.
- Teacher-principal trust at 83% lags behind the parent-side numbers — staff and leadership aren't always fully aligned.
Based on 2024-25 data
School SummaryDistrict 2
District 2 includes some of the city's most sought-after elementary and middle schools (Lab, Manhattan New School), but at the high school level Baruch stands out as one of the truly selective screened options — more competitive on admissions than most of its Manhattan peers.
Academics
The school runs AP courses alongside a humanities track and ELL support, with a program richness score of 65.2 reflecting solid but not sprawling academic offerings. Teacher-reported instruction quality is 96% — well above the district average of roughly 90% — suggesting the classroom experience matches the school's selective reputation. Specific proficiency figures aren't reported here, but the screened admissions process and AP offerings are the better signal of academic expectations.
Culture
Zero suspensions is the headline number — effectively unheard of in a NYC high school — and it tracks with the survey picture: 99% of parents trust the principal, 96% trust teachers, and 95% are satisfied overall. The one slight dip is teacher-principal trust at 83%, suggesting staff and leadership aren't always perfectly aligned even as families feel heard. Day-to-day, this reads as a calm, well-run environment where discipline isn't a daily concern.
Community
The student body is 38% White, 32% Asian, 19% Hispanic, and 6% Black, with a diversity index of 75% — diverse, but notably tilted toward White and Asian families compared to the citywide mix. About 42% of students qualify as having economic need, which is moderate, and 17% have IEPs. The surrounding neighborhood skews wealthier than the school population, so the student body is a more economically varied mix than its Flatiron address might suggest — most kids are commuting in from elsewhere.
Neighborhood
Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square is one of Manhattan's most affluent pockets: a median household income over $171,000, an 81% bachelor's-degree rate, and a median home value north of $1.6 million. Only about 9% of households here include children, which is unusually low and explains why so few students walk to school from the surrounding blocks. Families do, however, get serious transit convenience — three subway lines within a four-minute walk.
Transit is the easy part: the 28 St (6) and 23 St-Baruch College (6) stops are both about a three-minute walk, and the 23 St (R, W) is roughly four minutes away.
Survey Results
NYC School Survey (2025) · 111 families responded (23% rate)
Programs & Activities
Admissions Demand
Comprehensive interdisciplinary liberal arts program.
Racial & Ethnic Diversity
NYC DOE InfoHub · 2022-23
PTA Fundraising
Source: DOE Local Law 171 disclosure
Discipline
NYSED Student & Educator Database
Economic Need & Special Populations
How to get in, step by step
High school (9th grade)
High school is one citywide application, made in 8th grade. Baruch College Campus High School admits through one program, and each one has its own admissions method:
- Baruch CollegeScreened111 seats
High school application
- Opened
- Tue, Oct 6
- Closes
- Fri, Dec 4
- Offers
- Wed, Mar 3
The DOE’s published dates.
- 1Apply on MySchools during the high school application, in 8th grade.
- 2Screened programs rank the 7th-grade core-course average, so last year's final grades are the ones that count.
- 3Rank programs in true preference order — the match places your child in the highest-ranked one that offers a seat.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Baruch College Campus High School a good school?
- On Motley, Baruch College Campus High School earns an overall rating of 89/100 — the average of the school's four-year graduation rate, the share of its students scoring college-ready (70+) on the English Regents, and its Regents completion rate, shown out of 100.
- What grades does Baruch College Campus High School serve?
- Baruch College Campus High School serves grades 9 to 12.
- How do students get into Baruch College Campus High School?
- Baruch College Campus High School is a screened school — it admits by application, ranking applicants on their course grades (4th grade for middle school, the 7th-grade core-course average for high school); a few schools add an assessment, writing sample, or interview.
- Is Baruch College Campus High School public, charter, or private?
- Baruch College Campus High School is a public school in NYC Community School District 2.
- What neighborhood is Baruch College Campus High School in?
- Baruch College Campus High School is in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, Manhattan.