High School M560 - City As School

Class size here is 25.8, essentially identical to the district average of 25.8, and teacher-reported instruction quality reaches 100% — ten points above the district average of 89.8%. Those numbers describe a classroom environment that the adults in the building rate exceptionally well, even if the test-score picture isn't part of what the data captures.

The climate numbers are striking: zero suspensions against a district average of 0.3%, 96% parent satisfaction (vs 92% district), 100% parent-teacher and parent-principal trust, and 100% teacher-reported instruction quality. Teacher collegial trust at 95% and teacher-principal trust at 92% suggest a coherent adult culture, not just friendly one-off scores. The real caveat is sample size — only 6 family responses (1% response rate) and 21 teacher responses back these figures, so treat them as signals about the school, not population truths.

City As School's student body is 46% Hispanic, 30% Black, 15% White, 6% multi-racial, 2% Asian, and 1% Native American — a diversity index of 73% that doesn't match the surrounding West Village, which is overwhelmingly college-educated and has very few family households. The 74.8% economic need index and 35% IEP share tell the rest of the story: this is a school that pulls from a much broader New York than the neighborhood around it, and that mix is part of the point.

The West Village around the school is one of Manhattan's wealthiest enclaves, with very high educational attainment, sky-high home values, and a strikingly small share of family households — which gives the surrounding blocks the feel of a grown-up, professional neighborhood rather than a kid-dense one. Most residents are established adults, which shapes what the area looks like at 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.

The school is unusually well-served by transit: Houston St (1) is about a two-minute walk, Spring St (C, E) about five minutes, and Christopher St-Stonewall (1) about seven minutes on foot.