Harlem Renaissance High School

Class size sits at 18.7, right at the district average, but with only 191 students across the school, instructional settings are necessarily small and individualized. A full 27% of students have IEPs — well above the citywide rate — meaning special education support is woven into the daily fabric rather than treated as an add-on. The school doesn't have published proficiency scores in this dataset, so academic outcomes can't be directly compared to district averages here.

Zero suspensions over the data period is striking for a school where 91.5% of students qualify for the economic need index — it points strongly toward a restorative or relationship-based discipline approach rather than a punitive one. Teacher trust in leadership (99%), collegial trust among teachers (100%), and confidence in instruction quality (98%) all run well above district averages of 88%. Parent satisfaction at 93% beats the district's 90.8%, and parent trust in teachers and the principal both exceed 95%. The caveat: only 14 teachers responded to the survey, so the climate numbers come from a small staff where each voice carries more weight.

The student body is overwhelmingly Black (46%) and Hispanic (51%), with the remaining few percent from other groups — a diversity index of 46% reflects how concentrated the population is rather than how varied. The economic need index of 91.5 means nearly every student comes from a low-income household, and the 27% IEP rate is meaningfully above the citywide average. The school's demographics mirror East Harlem's working-class, majority-minority profile rather than diverging from it.

East Harlem is a working-class, predominantly renter neighborhood — only 8% of households own their homes, and the median household income of $36,709 reflects that economic reality. About 30% of neighborhood adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and just 10.8% of households include children, meaning most residents are adults without kids at home. The neighborhood's median home value of $675,756 shows the gap between housing costs and resident incomes.

The 125 St station on the 4, 5, and 6 lines is about a 6-minute walk, and the 125 St station on the 2 and 3 is also roughly 6 minutes away; the 135 St stop on the 2 and 3 is about a 10-minute walk.