High School for Health Professions and Human Services

The school's curriculum signals a strong pre-professional focus: AP courses are on the menu, ELL support is built in, and the screened-admissions process pulls from over 3,400 applicants. Teacher-reported instruction quality sits at 90%, slightly above the district average, and parents report 94% trust in teachers. With both medical-assisting and science-research admissions tracks, students get a clear pipeline into health careers, though year-over-year proficiency trends aren't reflected in the available data.

Zero suspensions — versus a district average of 0.3% — is the headline here, paired with parent satisfaction at 93% (just above the district's 92%) and parent trust in both teachers and the principal at 94%. Teachers report 90% on instruction quality and 89% on collegial trust, though principal-trust among staff runs a touch lower at 83%. The day-to-day feel reads as orderly and family-positive, though the 16% family survey response rate is low enough that the satisfaction numbers reflect a self-selected subset of families.

The student body is 52% Hispanic, 22% Asian, 15% Black, and 9% White — a notably different demographic profile than the surrounding Gramercy neighborhood, where median household income tops $153,000 and 83% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. With only 10% of Gramercy households including children, most students travel in from elsewhere in the city. The economic need index of 77 and 15% of students classified IEP mark this as a school that functions as a real on-ramp into health careers for working-class families.

Gramercy is one of Manhattan's wealthiest and most adult-dominated neighborhoods — high home values around $922,000, median household income well into six figures, and only one in ten households including children. The blocks around the school are quiet and leafy, dense with professional offices rather than family households. It's the kind of place where local walking-to-school families are uncommon, and most students arrive via the subway from elsewhere in Manhattan and beyond.

Two L-train stops — 1 Av (about a 3-minute walk) and 3 Av (about a 4-minute walk) — are closest, with 14 St-Union Sq (4, 5, 6 lines) about a 9-minute walk away.