The Urban Assembly School for Green Careers

School-level ELA, math, and science proficiency are not reported in this dataset, so we can't compare this school's Regents outcomes against the district averages of roughly 59% ELA and 54% math. What the data does show is a course catalog aimed at college readiness — AP courses, ELL support, and world languages — paired with a program richness score of 90/100, well above what you'd expect from a school this size. Until Regents data becomes available, the academic picture has to be read through program offerings and parent satisfaction rather than test results.

Parents give the school strong marks across the board — 94% satisfaction, 100% parent-teacher trust, 90% parent-principal trust — and not a single student was suspended, a remarkable result for a school serving a high-need population. The teachers tell a more complicated story: only 29% trust the principal and just 56% rate instruction quality positively, well below the district averages of 87% on instruction, pointing to real friction between staff and leadership. Worth noting that the family survey response rate was only 15%, so the glowing parent numbers come from a small slice of families.

The student body is 68% Hispanic and 23% Black, with an economic need index of 86.6 and 29% of students having IEPs — a very different profile from the surrounding block. The neighborhood around the school has a median household income near $152,000 and 80% of adults holding a bachelor's degree, so most students commute in from elsewhere in the city. This is a school where the demographic mix and the zip code don't match, which is part of what makes it a deliberate choice for families.

The Upper West Side around the school is a well-educated, affluent Manhattan neighborhood where most adults hold a bachelor's degree and median household income is roughly $152,000. About 17% of households have children, and the homeownership rate is just under 38%, with a median home value above $1.5 million — a neighborhood that's largely renters and condo dwellers rather than families with school-age kids on the block. The student body this school serves, by contrast, is drawn from across the city.

Getting here is genuinely easy: the 86 St station on the 1 train is about a 4-minute walk, the 86 St stop on the C and B lines is about 6 minutes, and 81 St-Museum of Natural History on the C and B lines is about 7 minutes away on foot.