Every public, charter and private K–12 school in New York City. Click a school to see every measure the city and state publish about it, from teacher trust in the principal to chronic absence, class size and spending, each set against similar schools. Built around Chalkbeat and The City Reporter’s guide to vetting a school.
Schools in view
least favorable most favorable no better or worse
About this map
Every public, charter and private K–12 school in New York City, with every school-level measure the city and state publish for all schools at once. The measures follow Chalkbeat and The City Reporter’s Oct. 7, 2026 guide to vetting a school. It’s a reference tool, not a ranking or an endorsement.
How to read a school
Click a school to open its sheet. Each row is one measure: the gray shape is every school of the same level (elementary, middle, high, transfer high, District 75), the dashed line is the median and the colored mark is this school. Hover a row for the definition, source and year.
Red to blue marks measures with a clear better and worse, by fifth of the school’s peers; blue is always the more favorable end. Purple marks measures where neither high nor low is better, such as spending or suspensions.
Worth asking about lists measures in the least favorable tenth of peers, plus benchmarks the guide names: more than 250 students per guidance counselor, half or more of teachers not recommending the school, or a building over capacity.
Line up schools in view turns every public and charter school on screen into a row and every measure into a column. Click a column to sort; shift-click schools on the map to pin them to the top.
Color dots by any measure to see it across the city.
Sources
NYC School Survey, spring 2026 (Department of Education public data files): teacher trust in the principal, teachers who’d recommend the school, student safety, support and vaping, family satisfaction.
DOE end-of-year attendance, 2024-25: attendance and chronic absence.
DOE School Quality Reports, 2024-25: impact and performance scores, teacher experience, advanced courses, CTE exams, special education services, DOE’s three ratings.
State English and math tests: DOE’s school results for spring 2026 (district schools) and the state’s report card database for spring 2025 (charter schools, whose 2026 results aren’t out in bulk). Charters are ranked only against other charters.
DOE graduation results, Class of 2025, and the quality reports’ college and career readiness score.
DOE class size report, 2025-26, and DOE’s state class-size cap report (Oct. 31, 2025).
DOE guidance counselor report (Local Law 56), 2025-26; PTA financial report (Local Law 171), 2024-25; discipline report (Local Law 93), 2024-25.
School Construction Authority Blue Book, 2025-26: each school’s enrollment against the space SCA assigns it, and the whole building’s.
DOE Building Accessibility Profile list, August 2026.
NYSED charter school directory, 2025-26: each charter’s authorizer and opening year.
Insideschools (Advocates for Children of New York): links to the staff reviews on its school pages, with each review’s date. No review text is reproduced.
DOE’s current school list (LCGMS, Oct. 7, 2026): current school names and addresses.
DOE Demographic Snapshot, 2021-22 to 2025-26: enrollment, race, disability, English learners, economic need.
Locations: DOE school locations, plus NYC Planning’s Facilities Database for schools opened since; private schools from the 2023-24 federal Private School Survey; attendance zones 2024-25 (NYC Open Data); children per census tract from the Census Bureau’s 2020-2024 American Community Survey.
Every raw file, build script and field definition is in the project repository. The methodology explains the comparisons, and the measures list gives each one’s source, year, coverage and definition.
Limits
Charter schools aren’t in DOE’s attendance, class size, counselor, PTA or discipline reports, and transfer high schools aren’t in its attendance file. Private schools report none of these measures.
Insideschools reviews are linked only when the school on the review is the same school: same name, or a documented rename at the same address. Many reviews are several years old; the date is shown with each link.
Test proficiency tracks demographics. The impact score, which compares students with similar students elsewhere, is the fairer read on what a school adds.
DOE redacts small counts (suspensions of 1 to 5, survey groups under 5 respondents, attendance for very small groups), so some schools have gaps.
Program and admissions tags still come from DOE’s 2021 directories; a missing tag isn’t proof a program doesn’t exist.
Student survey results are from a rewritten 2026 survey and shouldn’t be compared with earlier years.
Correction
Until Oct. 7, 2026, this map showed the share of students who were not chronically absent under the label “chronic absence.” P.S. 188 Kingsbury, for example, showed 94%; its actual rate is 7%. Chronic absence now comes directly from DOE’s end-of-year attendance data.