Harlem Village Academy East Charter School
- 2351 FIRST AVENUE, Manhattan
- Grades 1,5,6,7,8
- Shari Brown/Migdalia Arciniegas, Principal
- 646-812-9400
About
Harlem Village Academy East Charter School serves students in early childhood, elementary, and middle school grades. The school's enrollment of 348 students is below the citywide median. Student demographics show a high Economic Need Index of 91.0 percent, which is near the 75th percentile citywide, and 91.0 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, above the citywide median. The percentage of English Language Learners is 4.0 percent, which is below the 25th percentile. Academic proficiency in both ELA and Math is a notable strength, with 88.0 percent of students demonstrating proficiency in ELA and 88.0 percent in Math, both well above the citywide 75th percentile. However, the school's accelerated coursework rate is 0.0 percent, which is below the citywide 25th percentile. The suspension rate is 14.0 percent. Parent and student survey results are not available for this school.
Sources (4)
Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
88%
Math proficiency
88%
Proficiency rates are from the Grade 3–8 NYS state test (school-level).
Attendance rate
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Avg class size (general ed)
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Avg class size (ICT)
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Community & climate
Demographics, attendance, school survey results, and DOE quality ratings.
Quality signals
NYC School Survey, 2025-26
Overall positive % is averaged across every Pos/Neg survey question per respondent group (school year 2025-2026). Survey topics are the DOE’s framework measures (each the average favorable response across its questions; expand a topic to see them and the citywide average); the dimension scores themselves are no longer in the public data file.[3]
Operational health
Attendance
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Chronic absenteeism
38%
Suspension rate
14%
Teachers[7]
Teachers with 4+ years' experience
64%
Students per teacher
11:1
Teaching out of certification
87%
Teacher experience and certification from the NYSED School Report Card (2024–25); students per teacher = enrollment ÷ reported teachers. Fewer than 4 years counts as inexperienced.
Student body
Race / ethnicity[4]
- Black 56%
- Hispanic 37%
- Multiracial 6%
School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.
Gender[4]
- Female 48%
- Male 52%
Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.
Enrollment
348
Economic Need Index
91%
Free / reduced lunch
91%
English learners
4%
Students with IEPs
21%
Financials
[8]What this school has to spend, and what it spends it on. Spending is not a measure of quality. Schools serving more students with higher needs receive more money.
Charter schools manage their own budgets rather than receiving a school allocation from the DOE, so the staffing and supplies breakdown the DOE publishes for district schools is not published for this school.
Spending
Total spend
$9.2MStudents: 347
20th percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$26,378
15th percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.