District 3: chronic absenteeism by school

Manhattan, New York City · 41 schools

32.6%

chronically absent in 2024-25

33.3%

all NYC public schools

21

of 41 schools lowered their rate from 2023-24

The district rate fell 2.6 points from 2023-24, and was 23.1% in 2018-19, before the pandemic.

Schools in District 3

School2024-25Change
Beacon High School03M47916.2%down 6.5
Community Action School - MS 25803M25853.1%down 1.2
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts03M48511.9%up 1.8
Frank McCourt High School03M41744.1%up 8.3
Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School03M86030.7%up 1.9
High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice03M49264.9%up 3.3
High School of Arts and Technology03M49466.0%up 1.0
J.H.S. 054 Booker T. Washington03M0549.7%down 4.6
Lafayette Academy03M25640.7%down 12.4
M.S. 243 Center School03M2436.4%up 2.9
M.S. M245 The Computer School03M24515.0%down 0.8
M.S. M247 Dual Language Middle School03M24746.2%up 1.4
Manhattan / Hunter Science High School03M54111.7%up 1.9
Mott Hall II03M86238.2%up 3.4
P.S. 009 Sarah Anderson03M0099.7%down 2.7
P.S. 075 Emily Dickinson03M07538.1%down 9.0
P.S. 076 A. Philip Randolph03M07658.8%up 1.7
P.S. 084 Lillian Weber03M08422.8%down 2.9
P.S. 087 William Sherman03M08718.5%down 2.8
P.S. 145, The Bloomingdale School03M14556.5%down 8.8
P.S. 149 Sojourner Truth03M14954.4%down 2.9
P.S. 163 Alfred E. Smith03M16343.9%down 9.4
P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon03M16540.8%up 1.5
P.S. 166 The Richard Rodgers School of The Arts and Technology03M16618.3%up 3.6
P.S. 180 Hugo Newman03M18052.7%down 0.5
P.S. 199 Jesse Isidor Straus03M19919.3%down 6.2
P.S. 242 - The Young Diplomats Magnet Academy03M24264.3%down 7.7
P.S. 333 Manhattan School for Children03M33340.9%steady
P.S. 45203M45229.0%down 1.9
Special Music School03M85916.5%down 2.1
STEM Institute of Manhattan03M24161.3%down 10.9
The Anderson School03M3345.2%up 0.7
The Global Learning Collaborative03M40369.2%up 1.5
The Locke School of Arts and Engineering03M18540.7%down 4.7
The Riverside School for Makers and Artists03M19162.4%down 9.5
The Urban Assembly School for Green Careers03M40268.9%up 0.5
Urban Assembly School for Media Studies, The03M30749.0%down 10.8
Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing & Visual Arts03M41550.6%up 1.3
West End Secondary School03M29126.5%steady
West Prep Academy03M42155.9%up 9.6
Young Women's Leadership School03M61043.8%up 1.9

District 3 by year

YearDistrictNYC
2018-1923.1%26.5%
2019-2022.2%25.1%
2020-2127.2%29.7%
2021-2234.5%40.4%
2022-2336.2%36.2%
2023-2435.3%34.8%
2024-2532.6%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 3.

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.