Manhattan HS Teachers: Does your principal collaborate with you?
The Learning Environment Surveys create another source of questionable data. However, many teachers do respond to direct questions about their principals. What follows are the results from almost every Manhattan high school.
Question: “School leaders invite teachers to play a meaningful role in setting goals and making important decisions for the school”
Answers: “Strongly Agree” (10 pts), “Agree” (6.7 pts) “Disagree” (3.3 pts) or “Strongly Disagree” (0 pts).
Score: based on average response.
Percent: based on percent of answers “to a great extent” or “to some extent.”
The best: Score of 9 or higher, or 95% or higher, or both:
School | Principal | Note | Yes | Score |
Urban Academy Laboratory HS | Herb Mack | transfer | 100% | 10.0 |
Vanguard HS | Louis Delgado | Julia Richman Ed Campus | 100% | 9.9 |
Columbia Secondary School | Gary Biester | 6 to 12 | 100% | 9.8 |
Lower Manhattan Arts Academy | John Wenk | Seward Park Campus | 100% | 9.7 |
Forsyth Satellite Academy | Ingrid Roberts Haynes | transfer | 100% | 9.7 |
Hudson HS of Learning Techologies | Nancy Amling | 100% | 9.7 | |
Essex Street Academy | Erin Carstensen | 100% | 9.6 | |
Coalition School for Social Change | Sheldon Young | 100% | 9.6 | |
Harlem Village Academy Leadership Charter School | Sam Fragomeni | 6 to 12 Charter School | 100% | 9.5 |
James Baldwin School: A School for Expedition | Elijah Hawkes | transfer, HS for Humanities Ed Campus | 100% | 9.4 |
HS M560-City as School | Alan Cheng | transfer | 100% | 9.4 |
Satellite Academy HS | Steven Zbaida | transfer | 100% | 9.4 |
The Global Learning Collaborative | Jennifer Zinn | 100% | 9.4 | |
Facing History School | Gillian Smith | Park West Campus | 100% | 9.3 |
Harlem Village Academy Charter School | Laurie Warner/Ray Ankrum | 6 to 12 Charter School | 97% | 9.3 |
Institute for Collaborative Education | John Pettinato | 6 to 12 | 100% | 9.2 |
Urban Assembly for Media Studies | Cordelia Veve | MLK Campus | 96% | 9.1 |
Professinal Performing Arts HS | Keith Ryan | 6 to 12 | 100% | 9.0 |
Young Women’s Leadership School | Althea Bradshaw-Tyson | 6 to 12 | 92% | 9.0 |
City College Academy of the Arts | Bernadette Drysdale | 6 to 12 | 100% | 8.9 |
Manhattan International HS | Alan Krull | Julia Richman Ed Campus | 95% | 8.9 |
New Design HS | Scott Conti | Seward Park Campus | 100% | 8.8 |
HS of Hospitality Management | Matthew Corallo | Park West Campus | 96% | 8.8 |
Cascades HS | Paul Rotondo | transfer | 100% | 8.3 |
Landmark HS | Trevor Naidoo | 96% | 7.7 |
The worst: Score of 5 or lower, or 50% or lower, or both:
School | Principal | Note | Yes | Score |
NYC Museum School | Darlene Miller | 18% | 2.4 | |
Independence HS | Ron Smolkin | transfer | 31% | 3.3 |
Liberty HS for Newcomers | Melodee Khristan | transfer | 36% | 3.7 |
HS of Arts and Technology | Anne Geiger | MLK Campus | 38% | 3.8 |
New Heights Academy Charter School | Lisa Hackett/Kaye Houlihan | 6 to 12 Charter School | 37% | 4.2 |
Harvey Milk HS | Alan Nolan | transfer | 38% | 4.2 |
A. Philip Randolph HS | Henry Rubio | Campus, 9-10 | 41% | 4.3 |
The Opportunity Charter School | Marya Baker | 6 to 12 Charter School | 44% | 4.4 |
Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics | Jose David Jimenez | 44% | 4.4 | |
Mott Hall HS | Altagracia Villalona | 45% | 4.5 | |
Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts | Fia Davis | 52% | 4.6 | |
HS for Dual Language and Asian Studies | Li Yan | Seward Park Campus | 41% | 4.7 |
Frederick Douglass Academy | Gregory Hodge | 6 to 12 | 45% | 4.7 |
Manhattan Theatre Lab HS | Evelyn Collins | MLK Campus | 50% | 4.7 |
Academy of Environmentasl Sci | Irma Garceau | 47% | 4.9 | |
Baruch College Campus HS | Alicia Perez-Katz | 47% | 5.1 |
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School | Principal | Note | Yes | Score |
East Side Community School | Mark Federman | 6 to 12 | 93% | 8.8 |
Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day HS | Michael Toise | transfer | 94% | 8.7 |
NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies | Brooke Jackson | 94% | 8.7 | |
Bard HS Early College | Michael Lerner | 93% | 8.7 | |
Humanities Preparatory Academy | Julie Conason | transfer, HS for Humanities Ed Campus | 92% | 8.7 |
HS for Excellence and Innovation | Tyona Washington | transfer | 85% | 8.7 |
JS of Economics and Finance | Michael Stanzione | 94% | 8.5 | |
Park East HS | Kevin McCarthy | 94% | 8.5 | |
Harlem Renaissance HS | Nadav Zeimer | transfer | 94% | 8.5 |
Millennium HS | Robert Rhodes | 93% | 8.4 | |
Renaissance Charter HS for Innovation | Nicholas Tishuk | Charter School | 94% | 8.3 |
Manhattan/Hunter Science HS | Susan Kreisman | MLK Campus | 93% | 8.3 |
Central Park East HS | Bennett Lieberman | 91% | 8.3 | |
Gregorio Luperon HS | Juan Villar | 86% | 8.3 | |
Lower East Side Preparatory HS | Martha Polin | transfer | 89% | 8.2 |
Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction | Matthew Willoughby | 86% | 8.2 | |
Manhattan Bridges HS | Mirza Sanchez Medina | Park West Campus | 94% | 8.1 |
The HS of Fashion Industries | Daryl Blank | 93% | 8.1 | |
Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School | Brett Kimmel | 6 to 12 | 92% | 8.1 |
Eleanor Roosevelt HS | Dimitri Saliani | 91% | 8.1 | |
HS for Media and Communications | Ronni Michelen | GW Campus | 88% | 8.1 |
Food and Finance HS | Roger Turgeon | Park West Campus | 90% | 7.8 |
Louis D. Brandeis HS | Arleen Liquori | 86% | 7.7 | |
Manhattan Village Academy | Hector Geager | 85% | 7.7 | |
HS for Health Careers and Sciences | Harris Marmor | GW Campus | 88% | 7.6 |
American Sign Language and Secondary School | Watfa Shama | 6 to 12 | 87% | 7.6 |
Bayard Rustin Ed Complex | Lisa Ostrom | Campus, 9-10 | 83% | 7.6 |
HS for Health Professions and Human Services | Robert Gentile | 79% | 7.6 | |
HS for Law and Public Service | Nicholas Politis | GW Campus | 86% | 7.5 |
University Neighborhood HS | Elizabeth Collins | 84% | 7.5 | |
School of the Future HS | Stacy Paige Goldstein | 6 to 12 | 84% | 7.5 |
Pace HS | Yvette Sy | 86% | 7.4 | |
Innovation Diploma Plus | Casey Jones | transfer | 84% | 7.4 |
Emma Lazarus HS | Melody Kellogg | transfer | 76% | 7.2 |
HS for International Business and Finance | Peter Sloman | GW Campus | 86% | 7.0 |
Business of Sports School | Joshua Solomon | 83% | 7.0 | |
NYC iSchool | Alisa Berger | 83% | 7.0 | |
Art and Design HS | Eric Strauss | 82% | 7.0 | |
Legacy School for Integrated Studies | Joan Mosely | 81% | 6.9 | |
Leadership and Public Service HS | Lawrence Pendergast | 74% | 6.9 | |
Bread and Roses Integrated Arts HS | Rodney Lofton | 92% | 6.8 | |
Choir Academy of Harlem | A. Ellen Parris | 6 to 12 | 79% | 6.7 |
Frank McCourt HS | Danielle Salzberg | 63% | 6.7 | |
Henry Street School for International Studies | Erin Balet | 6 to 12 | 77% | 6.5 |
Life Sciences Secondary School | Genevieve Stanislaus | 6 to 12 | 72% | 6.5 |
Talent Unlimited HS | Linda Hamil | Julia Richman Ed Campus | 70% | 6.5 |
Beacon HS | Ruth Lacey | 68% | 6.5 | |
HS for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice | Miriam Nightengale | MLK Campus | 65% | 6.5 |
HS of Graphic Communication Arts | Jerod Resnick | 73% | 6.4 | |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis HS | Edward Demeo | 82% | 6.3 | |
Repertory Company HS for Theatre Arts | Michael Mehmet, Jr | 80% | 6.3 | |
Community Health Academy of the Heights | Stephania Vu | 6 to 12 | 71% | 6.3 |
KIPP S.T.A.R Charter School | Orpheus Williams/Natalie Webb | 6 to 12 Charter School | 66% | 6.3 |
Academy for Social Action | Rhokeisha Ford | 6 to 12 | 68% | 6.1 |
John V. Linsay Wildcat Academy Charter School | Ron Tabano/Marc Donald | Charter Transfer | 67% | 6.1 |
HS for Math, Science and Engineering @CCNY | William Dugan | Specialized | 61% | 6.0 |
HS for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry | Stephen Noonan | MLK Campus | 59% | 6.0 |
Marta Valle HS | Mimi Fortunato | 64% | 5.8 | |
Edward A. Reynolds West Side HS | Jean McTavish | transfer | 59% | 5.7 |
Heritage School | Luis Alberto Duany | 57% | 5.7 | |
The Urban Assembly School for Green Careers | Alexandra Rathmann-Noonan | only 6 teachers responded | 67% | 5.6 |
Fiorello LaGuardia HS of MUsic & Art | Kim Bruno | Specialized | 54% | 5.6 |
Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law | David Glasner | Seward Park Campus | 53% | 5.6 |
Chelsea CTE High School | Brian Rosenbloom | 63% | 5.5 | |
Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Herma Hall | 6 to 12 | 61% | 5.5 |
Murry Bergtraum HS for Business Careers | Andrea Lewis | 62% | 5.3 | |
Stuyvesant HS | Stanley Teitel | Specialized | 57% | 5.3 |
Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School | Osei Owusu-Afriyie | 6 to 12 | 52% | 5.1 |
Kiesha
JHS ? Central park Middle School. The principal is the worst. He never responds after I have left several messages regarding my son and his teachers. The above comment I made is directed to Mr. Michelman the principal at JHS 13 Middle school.