Storefront Academy Harlem Charter School

Both subjects sit below the District 4 average — ELA proficiency of 43.2% trails the district's 49.8%, and math proficiency of 34.9% sits well below the district's 45.2%. The trajectory is mixed: ELA dipped from 43.3% in 2023 to 35.6% in 2024 before recovering to 43.2% in 2025, while math has been essentially flat-to-declining (35.5% → 34.1% → 34.9%). The school's overall quality score of 1.56 out of 4 lands a step below the district average of 1.90, and within the district's peer set — schools scoring in the 75–97 range — Storefront reads as one of the lower-performing options. With only Grade 3 data reported in detail (41.2% ELA, 31.3% math), there isn't much to track across cohorts.

The school culture numbers tell two very different stories depending on who's answering and what they're answering about. On the family side, satisfaction (95%), parent-teacher trust (100%), and parent-principal trust (100%) are all exceptional — meaningfully above district averages. Teachers report 92% on instruction quality and a striking 97% on safety, both well above the district. But chronic absenteeism sits at 46.3%, meaning nearly half the students miss enough school to qualify as chronically absent. Boys (52.5%) are notably more absent than girls (38.8%), and Hispanic and Black students are both above 47%. A word of caution: only 7 teachers responded to the survey — with a 69-student school that's proportionally a lot of staff, but it does mean the climate picture leans heavily on families. The day-to-day feel for engaged families seems warm and trusting; the broader challenge is simply getting kids through the door consistently.

The student body is 71% Black, 22% Hispanic, and 4% Native American, with very little racial diversity otherwise — the school's diversity index is 46%, well below the citywide norm. The economic need index of 91.4% indicates an overwhelmingly low-income population, and 32% of students have IEPs, more than double what you'd typically see. This closely mirrors the surrounding East Harlem census profile, where a third of households live in poverty and median household income is around $36,700. Families who send their kids here are largely renting, working-class, and navigating significant economic pressure.

East Harlem (North) is a densely renter neighborhood — homeownership is just 8% — with median household income around $36,700 and roughly a third of residents living below the poverty line. Only about 10.8% of households here have children under 18, which is on the low end for a residential area and means the school draws from a fairly thin pool of local families. Just under 30% of neighborhood adults hold a bachelor's degree. The community is working-class, predominantly immigrant and Dominican-rooted in parts, and the school sits within walking distance of several major subway lines.

Families have it pretty easy on transit: the 4, 5, and 6 trains at 125 St are about a 5-minute walk, the 2 and 3 at 125 St are around 9 minutes, and the 2 and 3 at 135 St are about 10 minutes away.