At a Glance
A small screened high school in eastern Queens where students pick a creative or career-themed pathway, tucked into one of the borough's most homeowner-heavy neighborhoods.
Best suited for
Families who want a small, themed high school with strong creative-arts programming and are comfortable with a longer commute or driving routine to eastern Queens.
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
- Three distinct themed programs — performing & media arts, visual arts, and cosmetology/barbering entrepreneurship — under one roof, unusual for a school this small.
- A near-perfect 100/100 program richness score that bundles APs with robotics, journalism through Urban Word, and a Words From Within poetry group.
- The Visual Arts institute admits only about 17% of applicants, giving it genuine portfolio-based selectivity.
- Light discipline footprint — just 8 suspensions across 447 students — suggests a calm, low-drama environment.
- An unusual Native American enrollment share of 4%, one of the higher concentrations of any city high school.
Things to consider
- With no subway within walking distance, this is effectively a car, bus, or LIRR-commute school — a real factor for families without flexible transportation.
- Only 33 teachers and 17 families responded to the surveys, so even the strong parent-trust numbers should be read as directional rather than definitive.
- Teacher-principal trust was 63% and instruction quality 82% (below the 88% district average) — a softer signal than the parent numbers suggest.
- Economic need index of 68% means the student body relies heavily on supports, even in an affluent surrounding neighborhood.
- At 447 students, the school is small — meaning fewer course sections, fewer peers per grade, and a tighter social world than a zoned comprehensive.
Based on 2023-24 data
School SummaryDistrict 29
District 29 skews heavily elementary in the peer list shown here, so this high school stands somewhat apart from its neighbors. Within Queens' eastern-district landscape, it's one of the smaller, more thematically focused options — closer in feel to a screened citywide school than a traditional zoned campus.
Academics
Proficiency data isn't available in this profile, so we can't compare ELA or math results directly to the District 29 average of about 57% ELA and 54% math. What we do see is a school that offers AP coursework alongside career-themed programs (cosmetology/barbering, visual and performing arts), suggesting it tries to serve both college-track and pathway-track students under one roof. The Institute of Visual Arts admits only about 17% of applicants, which signals real selectivity on the creative side.
Culture
Parent-side signals here are strikingly strong — 90% parent satisfaction, 92% parent-teacher trust, 96% parent-principal trust — though the family survey response rate was just 3%, so read those numbers with caution. The teacher picture is more mixed: only 33 teachers responded, instruction quality was rated 82% (below the district average of 88%), and teacher-principal trust sat at 63%. With just 8 total suspensions across 447 students, the discipline footprint is light.
Community
The student body is 69% Black, 18% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 4% Native American — a different mix than Cambria Heights itself, which on census figures skews older and whiter with relatively few households with children. About 68% of students qualify for economic need support, and 17% have IEPs. The diversity index sits at 52%, meaning most students share a racial background, even though the school draws from a much wider Queens catchment than the immediate neighborhood.
Neighborhood
Cambria Heights reads like suburban Queens on paper: a $115,000 median household income, a 5.4% poverty rate, and 86% homeownership with a median home value near $594,000. Only about 15% of households here have children, which helps explain why most students commute in from elsewhere. The neighborhood has a BA-or-better rate of roughly 33%, and the streets are predominantly owner-occupied single-family homes.
This school is not within a 20-minute walk of any subway station, so families will need a car, school bus, or a Long Island Rail Road connection to get here.
Survey Results
NYC School Survey (2025) · 17 families responded (3% rate)
Programs & Activities
Admissions Demand
Students explore and have the opportunity to focus on performing arts (instrumental and vocal music, theater, dance, and acting) or television media (set design, lighting, and graphic arts).
Program focuses on career preparation through hands-on experience with the Adobe Creative Suite, Mobile Apps, and Web Design and Visual Arts (drawing, illustration, fashion). With a major focus on hands on instruction, these programs prepare students for relevant college majors. Industry certification (Adobe Certified Associate), dual enrollment, and articulated college credit courses are included.
This program provides students with marketable skills to become licensed Cosmetologists and Barbers. Students prepare for State licensure (NOCTI Certification) with opportunities for internships, in-house, and advanced industry training Students study and prepare in a clinical lab setting, using mannequins and live models for manipulative practice. The program emphasizes communication, management, and entrepreneurship skills that enables students to open their own business towards a professional career or to pay for their college education.
Racial & Ethnic Diversity
NYC DOE InfoHub · 2022-23
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. Health, Arts, Robotics, and Technology High School admits through 3 programs, and each one has its own admissions method:
- Cosmetology/Barbering Science and EntrepreneurshipEd. Opt.
- Institute of the Performing & Media ArtsEd. Opt.
- Institute of Visual ArtsEd. Opt.
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.
- 2Educational Option programs fill in equal shares across three reading levels, half by the school's ranking and half by lottery.
- 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 Health, Arts, Robotics, and Technology High School a good school?
- On Motley, Health, Arts, Robotics, and Technology High School earns an overall rating of 62/100 — 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 Health, Arts, Robotics, and Technology High School serve?
- Health, Arts, Robotics, and Technology High School serves grades 9 to 12.
- How do students get into Health, Arts, Robotics, and Technology High School?
- Health, Arts, Robotics, and Technology High School uses the Educational Option (Ed-Opt) method, ranking applicants across performance levels so seats go to a mix of abilities.
- Is Health, Arts, Robotics, and Technology High School public, charter, or private?
- Health, Arts, Robotics, and Technology High School is a public school in NYC Community School District 29.
- What neighborhood is Health, Arts, Robotics, and Technology High School in?
- Health, Arts, Robotics, and Technology High School is in Cambria Heights, Queens.