At a Glance
A small, fiercely collaborative Upper West Side high school where 99% of parents feel heard and not a single student was suspended
Best suited for
A motivated student — especially an English learner or one from a low-income family — who would thrive in a small, supportive high school with strong teacher trust, a non-punitive culture, and a family community that actually shows up.
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
- Zero suspensions alongside 99% parent satisfaction — a rare pairing that points to a restorative rather than punitive culture.
- A 12.5% offer rate makes GLC nearly eight times harder to get into than a typical unscreened district school.
- Program richness of 90/100 packed into a 421-student school — Mock Trial, Model UN, Step, Fashion Design, GSA, and weight training all share space with AP coursework.
- ELL Support is listed as a core program, meaning GLC actively welcomes English learners rather than quietly sorting them out.
- Parent-principal trust at 100% — every family that responded trusts the school's leadership, a number almost no NYC school posts.
Things to consider
- Test proficiency data isn't included in this profile, so academic outcomes can't be verified beyond program offerings and selectivity.
- At 74% Hispanic, the school is demographically concentrated rather than "global" in the way its name might imply.
- Economic need index of 86.6 means most families qualify for free or reduced lunch — a different economic reality from the surrounding block.
- Average class size of 23.1 matches the district average exactly — there's no small-class advantage.
- With only 17.2% of neighborhood households including children, your child's classmates will mostly commute from elsewhere in the city, not stroll over from nearby.
Based on 2024-25 data
School SummaryDistrict 3
District 3's peer rankings are dominated by screened powerhouses like Special Music School and the Anderson School, plus Success Academy charters. GLC sits more modestly in the middle of the pack on overall ratings but punches well above its weight on climate, trust, and community-engagement metrics — strengths the typical district school can't match.
Academics
GLC's program menu reads like a college-prep catalog — AP courses, Humanities, STEM tracks, ELL support, and world languages (French and Spanish) — and earns a 90/100 program richness score for its size. Specific proficiency figures aren't included in this profile, so academic outcomes can't be verified directly from the data shown. The 12.5% offer rate signals strong applicant quality, and the coexistence of AP courses with a 22% IEP population and a robust ELL program suggests GLC serves a genuinely mixed-need student body rather than screening for one profile.
Culture
The climate numbers here are remarkable: 99% parent satisfaction, 100% trust in the principal, 97% teacher-rated instruction quality, and zero suspensions in a district where the average suspension rate is 0.39%. Teacher-principal trust at 93% and teacher collegial trust at 88% suggest staff feel respected and collaborative rather than micromanaged. The 55% family survey response rate (189 responses) is high for a city school and signals a community that actively engages rather than just enrolls — parents here aren't just sending their kids, they're showing up.
Community
The student body is 74% Hispanic, 19% Black, and 22% IEP, with an economic need index of 86.6 — meaning most students come from low-income households. That profile stands in sharp contrast to the Upper West Side (Central) census tract around the school, where the median household income is $151,940 and 80% of adults hold a bachelor's degree. GLC is an ed-opt school that pulls students citywide into a neighborhood that doesn't economically resemble its student body — a common pattern for screened-district schools, but worth naming clearly because the disconnect is real.
Neighborhood
Upper West Side (Central) census figures paint a wealthy, college-educated enclave: $151,940 median household income, 80.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree, and median home values over $1.5 million. Only 17.2% of households include children — this is an area defined more by longtime residents and empty nesters than by young families. Because GLC draws from across the city via ed-opt admissions, most students will commute in rather than walk over from the surrounding brownstones.
Three subway options sit within a 7-minute walk: the 1 train at 86th Street (about 4 minutes), the C and B at 86th Street (about 6 minutes), and the C and B at 81st Street–Museum of Natural History (about 7 minutes).
Survey Results
NYC School Survey (2025) · 189 families responded (55% rate)
Programs & Activities
Admissions Demand
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. The Global Learning Collaborative admits through one program, and each one has its own admissions method:
- The Global Learning CollaborativeEd. 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 The Global Learning Collaborative a good school?
- On Motley, The Global Learning Collaborative earns an overall rating of 55/100 — 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 The Global Learning Collaborative serve?
- The Global Learning Collaborative serves grades 9 to 12.
- How do students get into The Global Learning Collaborative?
- The Global Learning Collaborative uses the Educational Option (Ed-Opt) method, ranking applicants across performance levels so seats go to a mix of abilities.
- Is The Global Learning Collaborative public, charter, or private?
- The Global Learning Collaborative is a public school in NYC Community School District 3.
- What neighborhood is The Global Learning Collaborative in?
- The Global Learning Collaborative is in Upper West Side (Central), Manhattan.