At a Glance
A small Manhattan charter high school tucked into SoHo, drawing a citywide student body whose diversity stands in sharp contrast to its affluent surroundings.
Best suited for
Families who want a small, charter high school option and are comfortable with lottery admissions and a student body drawn from across the five boroughs, especially those whose children benefit from close staff relationships and a strong IEP support presence.
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
- Citywide charter lottery admissions, so the student body is geographically and racially far more varied than the census tract around the school.
- A small high school by NYC standards, with 327 students spread across grades 9-12, including a 12th-grade seat for students who need an extra year.
- Teacher collegial trust at 95% — staff report very strong working relationships with one another.
- 26% of students have IEPs, a meaningfully higher share than at most NYC high schools, which shapes what daily instruction looks like here.
- Sits inside one of Manhattan's wealthiest census tracts while serving a student body where economic need is high — the contrast is itself a defining trait.
Things to consider
- The family survey response rate is just 2% (5 responses), so the parent-side numbers should be read as signals, not consensus.
- No school-level proficiency data is included in this profile, so parents should ask the school directly for current ELA, math, and graduation-rate numbers compared to the District 2 high school average.
- Teacher-rated instruction quality sits about 5 percentage points below the district average — worth asking what is driving that.
- Admissions are by lottery, so getting in is not guaranteed, and the students who enroll travel from across the city, which means commute time will vary widely.
- The surrounding neighborhood is not a typical kid-dense, family-dense part of NYC — most families here will not be locals.
Based on 2024-25 data
School SummaryDistrict 2
Within District 2, this school sits at a different end of the spectrum from the high-flying elementary and middle schools the district is known for (P.S. 77, the local Success Academy branches). It is a small charter serving a student population shaped much more by the city's high-need demographics than by the affluent SoHo-Downtown zip codes where it is physically located.
Academics
This profile does not include school-level ELA, math, or science proficiency data, so direct comparison to the district averages of about 73% ELA and 73% math isn't possible here. What we can say is structural: average class size is 25.8, essentially the same as the District 2 average of 25.8, and the school serves a student body with high economic need (86.6 index) and 26% IEP students, both of which shape the academic conversation the school is having. Parents rate their trust in the teaching at 85%, below the district average of about 90%.
Culture
Parent satisfaction sits at 92%, basically identical to the District 2 average, and parent-teacher trust is strong at 93%. Teacher collegial trust is notably high at 95%, suggesting staff get along well and lean on each other. The big asterisk here is the response rate: only 5 families answered the survey (a 2% response rate) and only 25 teachers did the same, so these numbers are signals rather than verdicts. Teacher-rated instruction quality at 85% comes in below the district average of about 90%, which is worth a conversation with the school.
Community
The student body is 52% Black and 44% Hispanic, with very small numbers of Asian, white, multiracial, and Native American students — a picture that looks nothing like the surrounding census tract, where the median household income is over $139,000 and roughly 78% of adults hold a bachelor's degree. That gap is the school's defining social fact: 86.6% of students qualify as high economic need, and 26% have IEPs. Roughly 12% of neighborhood households have children, which underlines how unusual it is to find a high school here at all.
Neighborhood
The school sits in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, where apartments are pricey (median home value north of $1.5 million), most adults hold a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate hovers around 10%. Roughly 12% of neighborhood households have kids under 18, so most of the people on the sidewalk are adults, not families. The mix of cast-iron architecture, retail, and gallery foot traffic sets a SoHo tone that's a far cry from the neighborhoods many of the students travel in from each morning.
Three subway options sit within a short walk: Canal St on the 1 train is about 3 minutes away, Spring St on the C and E is about 4 minutes, and Canal St on the A, C, and E is about 5 minutes.
Survey Results
NYC School Survey (2025) · 5 families responded (2% rate)
Racial & Ethnic Diversity
NYC DOE InfoHub · 2022-23
Economic Need & Special Populations
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Broome Street Academy Charter High School a good school?
- On Motley, Broome Street Academy Charter High School earns an overall rating of 37/100 — 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 Broome Street Academy Charter High School serve?
- Broome Street Academy Charter High School serves grades 9 to 12.
- How do students get into Broome Street Academy Charter High School?
- Broome Street Academy Charter High School is a charter school — it admits through a free public lottery, with no test or attendance zone.
- Is Broome Street Academy Charter High School public, charter, or private?
- Broome Street Academy Charter High School is a public charter school in NYC Community School District 2.
- What neighborhood is Broome Street Academy Charter High School in?
- Broome Street Academy Charter High School is in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan.