High · Career and technical · Grades 9 to 12

Union Square Academy for Health Sciences, New York, NY

Union Square Academy for Health Sciences is a public high school in New York, part of New York City Geographic District # 2. It enrolled 527 students in 2024-25, with 17.0 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "UNION SQUARE ACADEMY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 527
Teachers (FTE): 31.0
Students per teacher: 17.0
Grades: 9 to 12

This school's ratio is 4.2 higher than the district figure of 12.8. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.0

District12.8

New York11.4

United States15.3

School details

Address: 40 Irving Pl, New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212)253-3110
District: New York City Geographic District # 2
County: New York County
Level: High
Type: Career and technical
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: City: Large
NCES school ID: 360007706309

Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 444
Reduced-price lunch: 14
Free or reduced-price lunch: 45886.9% of enrollment.

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 # 2

Stuyvesant High School 3,261 students
High School for Health Professions & Human Services 1,728 students
Art and Design High School 1,485 students
High School of Fashion Industries (The) 1,455 students
High School for Environmental Studies 1,007 students
Clinton School (The) 846 students
School of the Future High School 709 students
Millennium High School 685 students
High School of Economics & Finance 644 students
Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School 620 students
Eleanor Roosevelt High School 538 students
Urban Assembly Maker Academy 535 students

High schools elsewhere in New York

Fiorello H Laguardia High School New York City Geographic District # 3
Manhattan Center for Science & Mathematics New York City Geographic District # 4
A Philip Randolph Campus High School New York City Geographic District # 6
Beacon High School New York City Geographic District # 3
West End Secondary School New York City Geographic District # 3
Columbia Secondary School New York City Geographic District # 5
East Side Community School New York City Geographic District # 1
New Heights Academy Charter School New Heights Academy Charter School
Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics New York City Geographic District # 6
Frederick Douglass Academy New York City Geographic District # 5
Democracy Preparatory Charter School Democracy Preparatory Charter School
High School Mathematics Science and Engineering at Ccny New York City Geographic District # 5

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.