District 1: chronic absenteeism by school

Manhattan, New York City · 23 schools

35.3%

chronically absent in 2024-25

33.3%

all NYC public schools

13

of 23 schools lowered their rate from 2023-24

The district rate fell 4.4 points from 2023-24, and was 29.2% in 2018-19, before the pandemic.

Schools in District 1

School2024-25Change
Bard High School Early College01M69626.4%up 2.4
Earth School01M36436.2%up 2.7
East Side Community School01M45022.6%up 1.6
Neighborhood School01M36337.8%up 2.1
New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math High School01M53910.7%steady
Orchard Collegiate Academy01M29254.7%down 5.4
P.S. 015 Roberto Clemente01M01544.8%down 8.5
P.S. 020 Anna Silver01M02053.1%down 2.2
P.S. 034 Franklin D. Roosevelt01M03436.9%down 22.3
P.S. 064 Robert Simon01M06452.6%up 4.1
P.S. 110 Florence Nightingale01M11031.3%down 3.5
P.S. 134 Henrietta Szold01M13461.5%down 2.7
P.S. 140 Nathan Straus01M14071.8%down 1.4
P.S. 142 Amalia Castro01M14257.1%down 2.5
P.S. 184m Shuang Wen01M1849.6%steady
P.S. 188 The Island School01M18841.8%down 25.3
School for Global Leaders01M37848.7%steady
The Children's Workshop School01M36128.9%down 8.5
The East Village Community School01M31519.4%down 5.6
The STAR Academy - P.S.6301M06348.5%down 6.2
Tompkins Square Middle School01M83939.3%up 6.8
University Neighborhood High School01M44825.2%down 7.8
University Neighborhood Middle School01M33261.1%up 1.8

District 1 by year

YearDistrictNYC
2018-1929.2%26.5%
2019-2027.9%25.1%
2020-2128.3%29.7%
2021-2242.6%40.4%
2022-2340.1%36.2%
2023-2439.7%34.8%
2024-2535.3%33.3%

▼ and ▲ show the change in percentage points from 2023-24. Source: NYC Public Schools, End-of-Year Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism Data. The district rate includes transfer schools, which the school-level data leaves out.

Every absence followed up, across District 1.

BrainBridge gives each school’s attendance team a daily follow-up list from the ATS file, family texts from each staff member’s own line, and a weekly meeting agenda, with the records A-210 asks for.