Harlem Village Academy North Charter School
- 244 WEST 144 STREET, Manhattan
- Grades K-12
- Taylor Drozenski/Sam Dolan, Principal
- 646-812-9300
About
Harlem Village Academy North Charter School serves students in grades K-12 in Manhattan. The school demonstrates strong academic outcomes, with 88 percent of students achieving proficiency in ELA and 86 percent in Math, both well above the citywide 75th percentile for Grade 3-8 state tests. For high school students, the four-year graduation rate is 96 percent, which is at the citywide 75th percentile. College enrollment within six months of graduation is 79.4 percent, well above the citywide 75th percentile. Regents exam pass rates include 80 percent for Algebra I and 91.4 percent for US History. The school's Economic Need Index is 88 percent, near the citywide 75th percentile, and 88 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The student population is 71 percent Black and 24 percent Hispanic. Parent and student survey results are not available for this school.
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Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
88%
Math proficiency
86%
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
20%
Suspension rate
10%
Teachers[7]
Teachers with 4+ years' experience
93%
Students per teacher
9:1
Teaching out of certification
79%
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 71%
- Hispanic 24%
- Multiracial 2%
School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.
Gender[4]
- Female 52%
- Male 48%
Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.
Enrollment
391
Economic Need Index
88%
Free / reduced lunch
88%
English learners
0%
Students with IEPs
18%
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
$11.0MStudents: 394
32nd percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$28,024
22nd percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.