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: “To what extent do you feel supported by your principal?”
Answers: “To a great extent” (10 pts), “to some extent” (6.7 pts) “to a small extent” (3.3 pts) or “to no extent” (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 |
| Forsyth Satellite Academy | Ingrid Roberts Haynes | transfer | 100% | 10.0 |
| Harlem Village Academy Leadership Charter School | Sam Fragomeni | 6 to 12 Charter School | 100% | 9.9 |
| Urban Academy Laboratory HS | Herb Mack | transfer | 100% | 9.8 |
| Vanguard HS | Louis Delgado | Julia Richman Ed Campus | 100% | 9.7 |
| HS M560-City as School | Alan Cheng | transfer | 100% | 9.7 |
| Essex Street Academy | Erin Carstensen | 100% | 9.6 | |
| Young Women’s Leadership School | Althea Bradshaw-Tyson | 6 to 12 | 100% | 9.6 |
| Coalition School for Social Change | Sheldon Young | 97% | 9.6 | |
| Lower Manhattan Arts Academy | John Wenk | Seward Park Campus | 100% | 9.5 |
| Satellite Academy HS | Steven Zbaida | transfer | 100% | 9.4 |
| Cascades HS | Paul Rotondo | transfer | 100% | 9.4 |
| Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School | Brett Kimmel | 6 to 12 | 97% | 9.4 |
| Harlem Village Academy Charter School | Laurie Warner/Ray Ankrum | 6 to 12 Charter School | 96% | 9.4 |
| Professinal Performing Arts HS | Keith Ryan | 6 to 12 | 100% | 9.3 |
| The Global Learning Collaborative | Jennifer Zinn | 100% | 9.3 | |
| Hudson HS of Learning Techologies | Nancy Amling | 100% | 9.3 | |
| Eleanor Roosevelt HS | Dimitri Saliani | 91% | 9.3 | |
| Institute for Collaborative Education | John Pettinato | 6 to 12 | 100% | 9.2 |
| HS of Hospitality Management | Matthew Corallo | Park West Campus | 96% | 9.2 |
| Louis D. Brandeis HS | Arleen Liquori | 96% | 9.2 | |
| East Side community School | Mark Federman | 6 to 12 | 94% | 9.2 |
| Urban Assembly for Media Studies | Cordelia Veve | MLK Campus | 100% | 9.1 |
| City College Academy of the Arts | Bernadette Drysdale | 6 to 12 | 97% | 9.1 |
| HS for Excellence and Innovation | Tyona Washington | transfer | 92% | 9.0 |
| Lower East Side Preparatory HS | Martha Polin | transfer | 89% | 9.0 |
| James Baldwin School: A School for Expedition | Elijah Hawkes | transfer, HS for Humanities Ed Campus | 100% | 8.9 |
| Manhattan International HS | Alan Krull | Julia Richman Ed Campus | 95% | 8.3 |
| New Design HS | Scott Conti | Seward Park Campus | 95% | 8.3 |
| Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction | Matthew Willoughby | 95% | 8.2 |
The worst: Score of 5 or lower, or 50% or lower, or both:
| School | Principal | Note | Yes | Score |
| The Urban Assembly School for Green Careers | Alexandra Rathmann-Noonan | only 6 teachers responded | 33% | 3.3 |
| Community Health Academy of the Heights | Stephania Vu | 6 to 12 | 37% | 3.7 |
| A. Philip Randolph HS | Henry Rubio | Campus, 9-10 | 39% | 4.0 |
| HS of Arts and Technology | Anne Geiger | MLK Campus | 42% | 4.0 |
| NYC Museum School | Darlene Miller | 42% | 4.0 | |
| Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts | Fia Davis | 39% | 4.1 | |
| Independence HS | Ron Smolkin | transfer | 48% | 4.2 |
| Repertory Company HS for Theatre Arts | Michael Mehmet Jr | 50% | 4.3 | |
| Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics | Jose David Jimenez | 43% | 4.4 | |
| The Opportunity Charter School | Marya Baker | 6 to 12 Charter School | 44% | 4.7 |
| Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School | Osei Owusu-Afriyie | 6 to 12 | 47% | 4.8 |
| Murry Bergtraum HS for Business Careers | Andrea Lewis | 56% | 4.8 | |
| Academy of Environmentasl Sci | Irma Garceau | 48% | 4.9 | |
| Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law | David Glasner | Seward Park Campus | 53% | 4.9 |
| Manhattan Theatre Lab HS | Evelyn Collins | MLK Campus | 46% | 5.1 |
| Landmark HS | Trevor Naidoo | 48% | 5.4 |
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