# INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360007705566`
- **School name**: INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: NEW YORK, NY 10019
- **Address**: 850 10TH AVE
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (LEAID `3600077`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.76800, -73.98890
- **Phone**: (212)262-8067
- **Wikidata QID**: Q95665907

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 222
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 1
  - HS CCCR: 1
  - HS ELP: 2
  - HS Core Performance: 1
  - HS Weight Performance: 1
  - HS Grad Rate: 1
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 39.0% (cohort of 101)
- **2021**: 22.0% (cohort of 152)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 143.6% (359 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.1% (56 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 21.1% (56 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 107.2% (284 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0
- **Restraint incidents**: 0
- **Seclusion incidents**: 0
- **Referrals to law enforcement**: 0
- **Bullying allegations**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 58.5%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 33.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.0% — 69 students
- **English Learners**: 10.2% — 27 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 51 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,074
- **Federal share**: $6,907
- **State + local share**: $28,167
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 262
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $106,915
- **Poverty rate**: 6.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 81.0%
- **Unemployment**: 5.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,412
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.5 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 160
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.14 miles (540 W 53RD CLINTON HOUSING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUBURBANS COMMUNITY MHP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.9122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES** — 0.0 mi away, 2.18% (this school: 21.13%)
- **PS 111 ADOLPH S OCHS** — 0.1 mi away, 14.94% (this school: 21.13%)
- **CITY KNOLL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 17.86% (this school: 21.13%)
- **FOOD AND FINANCE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 4.62% (this school: 21.13%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT** — 0.3 mi away, 12.32% (this school: 21.13%)

### graduation rate
- **HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES** — 0.0 mi away, 89% (this school: 39%)
- **FOOD AND FINANCE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 93% (this school: 39%)
- **HIGH SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT** — 0.3 mi away, 77% (this school: 39%)
- **FACING HISTORY SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.3 mi away, 82% (this school: 39%)
- **MANHATTAN BRIDGES HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 95% (this school: 39%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/independence-high-school-new-york
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/independence-high-school-new-york/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/independence-high-school-new-york/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/independence-high-school-new-york/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/independence-high-school-new-york/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/independence-high-school-new-york/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/independence-high-school-new-york/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/independence-high-school-new-york/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/independence-high-school-new-york/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/independence-high-school-new-york/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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