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Academy for Social Action

05M367

09,10,11,12,SE - Manhattan, District 5

509 WEST 129 STREET (get directions)

PTA $ not reported

128 students (SY2016-17)

No DOE Quality Report for this school type

Overview

Academy for Social Action is a high school school (grades 09,10,11,12,SE) in Manhattan, Community School District 5.

Enrollment & demographics

School year	Total enrollment
2013-14	309
2014-15	234
2015-16	170
2016-17	128

% female: 43% (2016-17)

% poverty: 85.9% (2016-17)

% students with disabilities: 32% (2016-17)

% English language learners: 23.4% (2016-17)

Data year

Mixed years. Each share is the newest year this school published it, shown next to the number.

Race / ethnicity

DOE reports race and ethnicity. It does not publish country of nationality.

Asian: 1.6% (2016-17)

Black: 50% (2016-17)

Hispanic: 46.9% (2016-17)

White: 100% (2016-17)

Multi-racial: not reported

Native American: not reported

Economic Need Index: 0.88 (DOE's poverty/need composite score, 0-1)

Academic / quality

No DOE Quality Report for this school type

Year	Metric	Value
2017	4-year graduation	30%
2017	SAT math mean	408.4
2017	SAT reading & writing mean	410.5
2016	4-year graduation	41%
2015	4-year graduation	39.3%

See the full report on DOE's site for every metric this dataset publishes.

State tests

Mean scale score on the New York State test for the grades this school serves. The percent is students at level 3 or 4, not a percentile rank. Scores from 2023 on use the current standards and are not comparable to earlier years. High school SAT section scores stay in Academic / quality.

No grade 3-8 state test row is published for the grades this school serves.

Specialized high school offers

No SHSAT feeder-school row is published for this school. DOE reports this for middle schools whose 8th graders entered high-school admissions.

School budget (Galaxy)

No DOE Galaxy budget is published for this school.

PTA funding (LL171)

PTA $ not reported

PTA/PA fundraising per enrolled student - higher generally means a more active parent fundraising community, not a DOE quality signal.

PTA funding not reported for this school.

Sources & methodology

A free, DOE / NYC Open Data-only tool. No paid ranking data (GreatSchools, Niche, or similar) anywhere on this site.

Other schools in this building

Powell M.S. for Law & Social Justice (05M172)The Urban Assembly Institute for New Technologies (05M410)Urban Assembly Academy for Future Leaders (05M286)Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts (05M369)

Data from NYC Department of Education and NYC Open Data. Free and public - no accounts, no paid ranking data.