Special Music School: chronic absenteeism and attendance
03M859 · K-12 all grades · 129 West 67 Street, Manhattan, NY 10023 · Lincoln Square · District 3
16.5%
chronically absent in 2024-25
32.6%
District 3
33.3%
all NYC public schools
In 2024-25, 51 of 309 students at Special Music School missed 10 percent or more of the school year, 16.1 points lower than District 3 and 16.8 points lower than all NYC public schools. The rate fell 2.1 points from 2023-24, and was 14.4% in 2018-19, before the pandemic. The average attendance rate was 94.2%.
Chronic absenteeism and attendance by year
| Year | Bar chart of the school’s rate | Chronically absent | NYC | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 14.4% | 26.5% | 94.6% | |
| 2019-20 | 22.8% | 25.1% | 93.7% | |
| 2020-21 | 2.0% | 29.7% | 98.5% | |
| 2021-22 | 16.5% | 40.4% | 94.1% | |
| 2022-23 | 15.6% | 36.2% | 93.9% | |
| 2023-24 | 18.6% | 34.8% | 93.7% | |
| 2024-25 | 16.5% | 33.3% | 94.2% |
A dash means no published figure for that year. 2019-20 covers September to mid-March only, and 2020-21 included remote learning.
By grade, 2024-25
- K0.0%
- Grade 16.3%
- Grade 20.0%
- Grade 30.0%
- Grade 40.0%
- Grade 520.0%
- Grade 66.7%
- Grade 713.3%
- Grade 812.5%
- Grade 97.3%
- Grade 1025.6%
- Grade 1116.7%
- Grade 1242.6%
By student group, 2024-25
| Student group | Students | Rate | Everyone else |
|---|---|---|---|
| Students with disabilities | 45 | 26.7% | 14.8% |
| English language learners | 6 | 0.0% | 16.8% |
| Students in poverty | 76 | 27.6% | 12.9% |
| Students in temporary housing | 7 | 28.6% | 16.2% |
Rates for small groups can swing a lot from year to year.
What moves this number
A personal call home on the first unexplained absence, a recorded reason for every absence, and a weekly attendance team meeting where every student gets an owner and a next step. Chancellor’s Regulation A-210 asks every NYC school for all three. BrainBridge makes them the easiest thing your team does each day.
Other District 3 schools
- Beacon High School16.2%
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts11.9%
- M.S. M245 The Computer School15.0%
- Manhattan / Hunter Science High School11.7%
- P.S. 084 Lillian Weber22.8%
- P.S. 087 William Sherman18.5%
- P.S. 166 The Richard Rodgers School of The Arts and Technology18.3%
- P.S. 199 Jesse Isidor Straus19.3%
Source: NYC Public Schools, End-of-Year Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism Data (2018-19 to 2024-25). Chronically absent means missing 10 percent or more of the days a student was enrolled, for any reason; it counts students enrolled at least 10 days who attended at least once. Group figures the city suppresses for privacy are left out. District figures include transfer schools.
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