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Public Schools in New York

4,812 schools · 1,103 districts · 2,505,431 students

47%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in New York

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

Brooklyn Technical High School

Brooklyn

5,940 students

Brentwood High School

Brentwood

4,641 students

Francis Lewis High School

Fresh Meadows

4,265 students

Midwood High School

Brooklyn

4,062 students

Fort Hamilton High School

Brooklyn

3,925 students

Tottenville High School

Staten Island

3,783 students

Edward R Murrow High School

Brooklyn

3,639 students

James Madison High School

Brooklyn

3,630 students

Newburgh Free Academy

Newburgh

3,433 students

Forest Hills High School

Forest Hills

3,429 students

Frequently Asked Questions

New York has 4,812 public schools across 1,103 districts, serving 2,505,431 students.

The largest school in New York is Brooklyn Technical High School with 5,940 students. New York has 4,812 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 47%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.

Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.