High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Beacon High School, New York, NY
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,372
- Teachers (FTE)
- 92.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.9
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 3.2 higher than the district figure of 11.7. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 522 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
- Phone
- (212)465-4230
- County
- New York County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Large
- NCES school ID
- 360007800592
School meals
- Free lunch
- 793
- Reduced-price lunch
- 50
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 84361.4% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in New York City Geographic District # 3
- Fiorello H Laguardia High School 2,251 students
- West End Secondary School 722 students
- High School for Law Advocacy and Community Justice 531 students
- Manhattan/Hunter Science High School 447 students
- Frank McCourt High School 407 students
- Global Learning Collaborative (The) 393 students
- High School of Arts and Technology 392 students
- Young Women'S Leadership School 360 students
- Urban Assembly School for Media Studies 331 students
- Urban Assembly School for Green Careers (The) 326 students
- Wadleigh Perf and Visual Arts 319 students
- Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School 310 students
High schools elsewhere in New York
- Stuyvesant High School New York City Geographic District # 2
- High School for Health Professions & Human Services New York City Geographic District # 2
- Manhattan Center for Science & Mathematics New York City Geographic District # 4
- Art and Design High School New York City Geographic District # 2
- High School of Fashion Industries (The) New York City Geographic District # 2
- A Philip Randolph Campus High School New York City Geographic District # 6
- High School for Environmental Studies New York City Geographic District # 2
- Clinton School (The) New York City Geographic District # 2
- Columbia Secondary School New York City Geographic District # 5
- School of the Future High School New York City Geographic District # 2
- East Side Community School New York City Geographic District # 1
- Millennium High School New York City Geographic District # 2
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.