Commissioner Identifies 155 High Achieving and High Progress Schools as Reward Schools

The State Education Department identified 155 high achieving and high progress schools as Reward Schools, Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced today. Reward Schools are schools with high academic achievement or those with the most progress in the State and do not have significant gaps in student achievement between subgroups. Each Reward School will receive a certificate of recognition from the Commissioner.

“The teachers and administrators at these Reward schools work hard each day to raise the bar and give their students opportunities to achieve their dreams,” Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa said. “The proof is in the results these schools have obtained and I am thrilled to celebrate their success.”

“It’s truly impressive that so many of this year’s Reward Schools were able to maintain the designation for three years in a row,” Commissioner Elia said. “All of these schools serve as models to others in the state to inspire them to achieve a high level of accomplishment and improvement.”

To be identified as a Reward School, a school must:

• Be among the top 20 percent of schools in the state for English language arts (ELA) and math performance for both the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years or be among the top ten percent of schools in terms of gains in ELA and math performance in the 2016-17 school year;
• Have made Adequate Yearly Progress for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years for all groups of students on all measures for which the school is accountable, including the requirement that 95 percent of all groups participate in the English language arts and mathematics assessments; and
• Not have unacceptably large gaps in student performance on an accountability measure between students who are members of an accountability group (e.g., low-income students) and students who are not members of that group.

In addition, elementary and middle schools must demonstrate that more than 50 percent of students are making annual growth in ELA and math; and that more than 50 percent of the school’s lowest achieving students are also making gains. High schools must have graduation rates above 80 percent to be a high-achieving school and above 60 percent to be a high-progress school and the percentage of students in the school who graduate with a Regents diploma with advanced designation or a Career and Technical Endorsement (CTE) must exceed the State average. Additionally, high schools must demonstrate that their graduation rate for students who entered the school performing below proficient in ELA or math exceeds the State average.

Of the identified schools, 64 are located in New York City, 73 are located in the rest of the state and 18 are public charter schools. In addition, 107 of these schools were identified as Reward Schools last year, and 81 have been identified as Reward Schools for three consecutive years. The full list is below. 

New York City

• Academy of Finance and Enterprise
• All City Leadership Secondary School
• Baccalaureate School for Global Education
• Ballet Tech/NYC PS for Dance
• Baruch College Campus High School
• Bronx High School of Science
• Brooklyn College Academy
• Brooklyn School of Inquiry
• Brooklyn Tech High School
• East Side Elementary - PS 267
• East Side Middle School
• Eleanor Roosevelt High School
• Fiorello H LaGuardia High School
• High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies
• High School of American Studies at Lehman College
• Leon M Goldstein High School for the Sciences
• Manhattan Center-Science and Math
• Manhattan Village Academy
• Millennium Brooklyn High School
• Millennium High School
• MS 243 Center School
• MS 255 Salk School of Science
• MS 358
• New Explorations Science, Technology and Math
• NYC Lab High School for Collaborative Studies
• NYC Museum School
• PS 101 - The Verrazano
• PS 11 Purvis J Behan
• PS 110 Florence Nightingale
• PS 130 Hernando De Soto
• PS 134
• PS 150
• PS 163 Alfred E Smith
• PS 173 Fresh Meadows
• PS 184 Shuang Wen
• PS 195 Manhattan Beach
• PS 198 Isador E Ida Straus
• PS 199 Jessie Isador Straus
• PS 2 Alfred Zimberg
• PS 212 Midtown West
• PS 213 The Carl Ullman School
• PS 247
• PS 249 - The Caton
• PS 25 Eubie Blake School
• PS 26 Jesse Owens
• PS 26 Rufus King
• PS 28 - The Warren Prep Academy
• PS 35 The Clove Valley School
• PS 39 Henry Bristow
• PS 397 Foster-Laurie
• PS 41 Greenwich Village
• PS 42 Benjamin Altman
• PS 77 Lower Lab School
• PS 89
• PS 96
• Queens College School for Math, Science and Technology
• Queens Gateway to Health Science Secondary School
• Queens High School Science at York College
• Special Music School
• Staten Island Tech High School
• Stuyvesant High School
• Tag Young Scholars
• The Academy of Talented Scholars
• Townsend Harris High School

Rest of State

• Akron High School
• Amherst Central High School
• Ardsley High School
• Bayport-Blue Point High School
• Bethpage Senior High School
• Briarcliff High School
• Brighton High School
• Bronxville Elementary School
• Caledonia-Mumford High School
• Clarkstown South Senior High School
• Clinton Senior High School
• Colonial School
• Columbia High School
• Croton-Harmon High School
• Dobbs Ferry High School
• Earl L Vandermeulen High School
• East Aurora High School
• Eastchester Senior High School
• Fayetteville-Manlius Senior High School
• Garden City High School
• Great Neck South High School
• Haldane High School
• Half Hollow Hills High School East
• Half Hollow Hills High School West
• Harborfields High School
• Harrison High School
• Hastings High School
• Herricks High School
• Honeoye Falls-Lima Senior High School
• Iroquois Senior High School
• Irvington High School
• Jamesville-Dewitt High School
• Jericho Senior High School
• John F Kennedy High School
• Keene Central School
• Lansing High School
• Locust Valley High School
• Lynbrook Senior High School
• Maine-Endwell Senior High School
• Manhasset Secondary School
• Maple Hill High School
• Mt Sinai High School
• Murray Avenue School
• Nanuet Senior High School
• New Hartford Senior High School
• North Shore Senior High School
• Owego Free Academy
• Pelham Memorial High School
• Penfield Senior High School
• Pittsford-Mendon High School
• Plainview-Old Bethpage/JFK High School
• Pleasantville High School
• Rebecca Turner Elementary School
• Rhinebeck Senior High School
• Ripley Central School
• Roslyn High School
• Rush-Henrietta Senior High School
• Rye Neck Senior High School
• Sayville High School
• Shaker High School
• Skaneateles Senior High School
• Smithtown High School-West
• Somers Senior High School
• South Side High School
• Spackenkill High School
• Syosset Senior High School
• Todd Elementary School
• Vestal Senior High School
• W Tresper Clarke High School
• Walter Panas High School
• Wantagh Senior High School
• Williamsville East High School
• Yorktown High School

Charter

• Academy of The City Charter School
• Achievement First Apollo Charter
• Achievement First Bushwick Charter
• Beginning with Children Charter II
• Bronx Charter School Better Learning
• Hellenic Classical Charter School
• Icahn Charter School 2
• Icahn Charter School 3
• Icahn Charter School 5
• Icahn Charter School 6
• Imagine Me Leadership Charter School
• Rochdale Early Advantage Charter School
• South Bronx Classical Charter School
• Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 2
• Success Academy Charter School - Cobble Hill
• Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 2
• Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 4
• Success Academy Charter School - Williamsburg

The Commissioner’s action was taken in accordance with New York State’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Flexibility Waiver approved by the United States Department of Education.

The Reward Schools list is available on the State Education Department (SED) website

Further details on the Reward School identification methodology can be found on the Department’s ESEA Designations Material website.