District 5: chronic absenteeism by school

Manhattan, New York City · 27 schools

45.9%

chronically absent in 2024-25

33.3%

all NYC public schools

16

of 27 schools lowered their rate from 2023-24

The district rate fell 3.1 points from 2023-24, and was 39.7% in 2018-19, before the pandemic.

Schools in District 5

School2024-25Change
Columbia Secondary School05M36211.4%steady
Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem05M14839.4%down 4.3
Frederick Douglass Academy05M49931.1%down 10.1
High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering at City College05M6929.0%steady
Mott Hall High School05M30454.4%down 7.1
New Design Middle School05M51461.5%down 3.3
P.S. 030 Hernandez/Hughes05M03058.6%down 4.4
P.S. 036 Margaret Douglas05M03657.8%down 5.1
P.S. 046 Arthur Tappan05M04653.9%down 4.4
P.S. 092 Mary McLeod Bethune05M09256.5%down 7.1
P.S. 123 Mahalia Jackson05M12360.3%steady
P.S. 125 Ralph Bunche05M12538.0%down 4.0
P.S. 129 John H. Finley05M12967.4%up 3.6
P.S. 133 Fred R Moore05M13342.0%down 1.4
P.S. 154 Harriet Tubman05M15445.3%down 10.4
P.S. 161 Pedro Albizu Campos05M16151.2%down 3.4
P.S. 175 Henry H Garnet05M17547.5%up 3.5
P.S. 194 Countee Cullen05M19451.2%down 6.5
P.S. 197 John B. Russwurm05M19758.5%down 9.9
P.S. 200- The James McCune Smith School05M20061.3%up 6.5
School of Earth Exploration and Discovery Harlem (SEED Harlem)05M37167.4%up 4.5
Teachers College Community School05M51738.7%down 3.8
The Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce05M15766.1%up 8.1
Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change05M67045.7%up 2.5
Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School05M31860.3%steady
Urban Assembly Academy for Future Leaders05M28656.1%up 0.8
Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts05M36965.3%down 12.5

District 5 by year

YearDistrictNYC
2018-1939.7%26.5%
2019-2037.2%25.1%
2020-2150.4%29.7%
2021-2257.7%40.4%
2022-2349.9%36.2%
2023-2449.0%34.8%
2024-2545.9%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 5.

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.

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