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What’s Special

Hands on learning and field trips

The Downside

Discipline problems, below average graduation rate

At Renaissance Charter High School for Innovation, teachers help teens develop year-long projects they are passionate about and take them out and about in the city, exposing them to art, history, politics and ecology.   

At some charter schools kids wear uniforms, pass silently in the halls, and spend much of the day seated at their desks. At Innovation there are no bells, no uniforms and no hallway passes. 

Modeled after the popular K-12 Renaissance Charter School in Queens, Innovation encourages students to experiment and learn by doing. Students may study chemistry using Legos or create an educational video.

The results of school surveys are mixed: most students feel safe in school and say the environment is supportive, but teachers complain of a lack of discipline and order. The suspension rate is almost four times the citywide average and teachers come and go more often than at other city schools, according to state data. The graduation rate is below the citywide average. 

On the positive side, Renaissance Innovation offers a Software Engineering Program (SEP), a four-year computer science sequence with classes in programming, computer application design, and game building, culminating in an Advanced Placement course. The school also offers culinary arts.

Twice a year, regular classes are suspended for weeklong enrichment projects and field trips based on themes like fashion, democracy, urban ecology or journalism. A group called "learning English through social justice" volunteers in a soup kitchen; an engineering group creates Rube Goldberg-like machines and soda-powered rockets.

This rare stand-alone charter high school has some incoming students with skills as low as 4th or 5th grade level. More than one-third of the population has disabilities. All academic classes have two teachers, one of whom is trained to teach special education. 

The school opened in 2010 in a building occupied by Manhattan East, a middle school, and Success Academy Harlem 3 serving grades K-4.

Admissions: Lottery with priority to District 4 families. (Lydie Raschka, web reports, January 2019)

 

 

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School Stats

Citywide Average Key
This school is Better Near Worse than the citywide average

Academics

School
Citywide
How many students graduate in 4 years?
 
81%
How many students with disabilities graduate in 4 years?
 
72%
How many English language learners graduate in 4 years?
 
80%
Average daily attendance
 
75%
How many students miss 18 or more days of school?
 
59%
How many parents of students with disabilities say this school offers enough activities and services for their children's needs?
 
100%
How many parents of students with disabilities say this school works to achieve the goals of their students' IEPs?
 
100%
From the 2021-22 School Quality Guide and 2020-21 NYC School Survey

Students

409
Number of students
Citywide Average is 599

Race/Ethnicity


School
Citywide
Low-income students
 
87%
Students with disabilities
 
36%
Multilingual learners
 
8%
From the 2022-23 Demographic Snapshot

Safety & Vibe

School
Citywide
How many students were suspended?
 
0%
How many students say they feel safe in the hallways, bathrooms and locker rooms?
 
75%
How many students think bullying happens most or all of the time at this school?
 
52%
How many students say that some are bullied at their school because of their gender or sexual orientation?
 
40%
From the 2020-21 NYC School Survey and 2019-20 NY State Report Card

Faculty & Staff

School
Citywide
How many teachers say the principal is an effective manager?
 
78%
7.0
Years of principal experience at this school
Citywide Average is 7

Teachers’ Race/Ethnicity


How many teachers have 3 or more years of experience teaching?
 
87%
From the 2020-21 NYC School Survey, 2021-22 School Quality Guide, 2019-20 Report on School-Based Staff Demographics, 2021 Guidance Counselor Report, and this school's most recent Quality Review Report

Advanced Courses

Which students have access to advanced courses at this school? Learn more

Calculus

Not offered in 2019-20

Computer Science

 
18%

Physics

 
16%

Advanced Foreign Language

Not offered in 2019-20

AP/IB Arts, English, History or Social Science

 
5%

AP/IB Math or Science

 
2%

Music

 
46%
From unpublished, anonymized data from the 2021-22 school year provided by the New York State Education Department, brought to you by

College Readiness

School
Citywide
How many students graduate with test scores high enough to enroll at CUNY without remedial help?
 
37%
How many students take a college-level course or earn a professional certificate?
 
50%
How many students who have graduated from this high school stay in college for at least 3 semesters?
 
42%
From the 2020-21 and 2021-22 School Quality Guide
How many students filled out a FAFSA form by the end of their senior year?
 
0%
From the 2022-23 FAFSA data released by Federal Student Aid, brought you by
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Contact & Location

Location

410 East 100 Street
Manhattan NY 10029

Trains: 6 Line to 103rd St; Q Line to 96th St

Buses: M15, M15-SBS, M96, M101, M102, M103


Contact

Principal: Stephen Fallariff

Website

Other Details

Shared campus? Yes

This school shares the building with MS 224 and Success Academy Harlem 3 Charter

Uniforms required? No
Metal detectors? No

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