District 4: chronic absenteeism by school

Manhattan, New York City · 27 schools

43.0%

chronically absent in 2024-25

33.3%

all NYC public schools

21

of 27 schools lowered their rate from 2023-24

The district rate fell 4.3 points from 2023-24, and was 31.3% in 2018-19, before the pandemic.

Schools in District 4

School2024-25Change
Central Park East High School04M55515.1%up 3.2
Central Park East I04M49725.4%down 1.6
Central Park East II04M96453.9%down 0.6
Esperanza Preparatory Magnet School04M37250.0%up 3.9
Heritage School, The04M68048.6%up 13.9
Isaac Newton Middle School for Math & Science04M82540.4%down 6.4
James Weldon Johnson04M05750.4%down 2.4
M.S. 224 Manhattan East School for Arts & Academics04M22433.7%down 7.2
Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics04M43515.4%down 9.8
Mosaic Preparatory Academy04M37561.9%down 10.7
P.S. 007 Samuel Stern04M00763.3%down 9.0
P.S. 083 Luis Munoz Rivera04M08348.2%down 0.7
P.S. 096 Joseph Lanzetta04M09645.2%down 10.5
P.S. 102 Jacques Cartier04M10259.2%down 11.9
P.S. 108 Assemblyman Angelo Del Toro Educational Complex04M10855.2%down 8.0
P.S. 112 Jose Celso Barbosa04M11262.2%down 3.7
P.S. 146 Ann M. Short04M14649.9%down 6.6
P.S. 155 William Paca04M15554.7%down 5.1
P.S. 171 Patrick Henry04M17126.4%up 0.6
P.S. 206 Jose Celso Barbosa04M20654.1%down 1.9
P.S. 38 Roberto Clemente04M03856.1%down 17.5
Park East High School04M49528.0%up 3.2
Renaissance School of the Arts04M37752.3%steady
River East Elementary04M03751.1%down 8.0
Tag Young Scholars04M0129.0%down 0.5
The Bilingual Bicultural School04M18245.9%down 8.5
The Lexington Academy04M07260.9%down 2.7

District 4 by year

YearDistrictNYC
2018-1931.3%26.5%
2019-2028.9%25.1%
2020-2132.1%29.7%
2021-2244.8%40.4%
2022-2343.1%36.2%
2023-2447.3%34.8%
2024-2543.0%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 4.

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.