Manhattan HS teachers: Does your principal support 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: “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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| School | Principal | Note | Yes | Score |
| Bard HS Early College | Michael Lerner | 93% | 8.9 | |
| Manhattan Bridges HS | Mirza Sanchez Medina | Park West Campus | 92% | 8.9 |
| Central Park East HS | Bennett Lieberman | 90% | 8.9 | |
| Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day HS | Michael Toise | transfer | 89% | 8.9 |
| The HS of Fashion Industries | Daryl Blank | 92% | 8.8 | |
| JS of Economics and Finance | Michael Stanzione | 93% | 8.7 | |
| HS for Health Careers and Sciences | Harris Marmor | GW Campus | 88% | 8.7 |
| Life Sciences Secondary School | Genevieve Stanislaus | 6 to 12 | 91% | 8.6 |
| Millennium HS | Robert Rhodes | 90% | 8.4 | |
| Manhattan Village Academy | Hector Geager | 93% | 8.3 | |
| Manhattan/Hunter Science HS | Susan Kreisman | MLK Campus | 84% | 8.3 |
| Leadership and Public Service HS | Lawrence Pendergast | 84% | 8.3 | |
| Bayard Rustin Ed Complex | Lisa Ostrom | Campus, 9-10 | 83% | 8.3 |
| Gregorio Luperon HS | Juan Villar | 81% | 8.3 | |
| NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies | Brooke Jackson | 88% | 8.2 | |
| Park East HS | Kevin McCarthy | 84% | 8.2 | |
| HS for Law and Public Service | Nicholas Politis | GW Campus | 86% | 8.1 |
| HS for International Business and Finance | Peter Sloman | GW Campus | 81% | 8.1 |
| Choir Academy of Harlem | A. Ellen Parris | 6 to 12 | 85% | 7.9 |
| HS for Media and Communications | Ronni Michelen | GW Campus | 82% | 7.9 |
| HS for Health Professions and Human Services | Robert Gentile | 80% | 7.9 | |
| Beacon HS | Ruth Lacey | 86% | 7.8 | |
| Chelsea CTE High School | Brian Rosenbloom | 85% | 7.8 | |
| Food and Finance HS | Roger Turgeon | Park West Campus | 84% | 7.8 |
| John V. Linsay Wildcat Academy Charter School | Ron Tabano/Marc Donald | Charter Transfer | 89% | 7.7 |
| Renaissance Charter HS for Innovation | Nicholas Tishuk | Charter School | 87% | 7.7 |
| Harlem Renaissance HS | Nadav Zeimer | transfer | 81% | 7.7 |
| Facing History School | Gillian Smith | Park West Campus | 75% | 7.7 |
| Frank McCourt HS | Danielle Salzberg | 86% | 7.1 | |
| Business of Sports School | Joshua Solomon | 78% | 7.0 | |
| Columbia Secondary School | Gary Biester | 6 to 12 | 77% | 7.0 |
| HS for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice | Miriam Nightengale | MLK Campus | 71% | 7.0 |
| HS for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry | Stephen Noonan | MLK Campus | 70% | 7.0 |
| KIPP S.T.A.R Charter School | Orpheus Williams Natalie Webb | 6 to 12 Charter School | 66% | 7.0 |
| Innovation Diploma Plus | Casey Jones | transfer | 85% | 6.9 |
| Legacy School for Integrated Studies | Joan Mosely | 77% | 6.9 | |
| University Neighborhood HS | Elizabeth Collins | 73% | 6.9 | |
| HS for Dual Language and Asian Studies | Li Yan | Seward Park Campus | 71% | 6.9 |
| Emma Lazarus HS | Melody Kellogg | transfer | 69% | 6.9 |
| American Sign Language and Secondary School | Watfa Shama | 6 to 12 | 73% | 6.7 |
| Fiorello LaGuardia HS of MUsic & Art | Kim Bruno | Specialized | 68% | 6.7 |
| Pace HS | Yvette Sy | 66% | 6.7 | |
| School of the Future HS | Stacy Paige Goldstein | 6 to 12 | 63% | 6.7 |
| NYC iSchool | Alisa Berger | 72% | 6.5 | |
| Stuyvesant HS | Stanley Teitel | Specialized | 71% | 6.5 |
| HS of Graphic Communication Arts | Jerod Resnick | 71% | 6.5 | |
| Art and Design HS | Eric Strauss | 74% | 6.4 | |
| Mott Hall HS | Altagracia Villalona | 68% | 6.4 | |
| Humanities Preparatory Academy | Julie Conason | transfer, HS for Humanities Ed Campus | 64% | 6.4 |
| HS for Math, Science and Engineering @CCNY | William Dugan | Specialized | 64% | 6.4 |
| Edward A. Reynolds West Side HS | Jean McTavish | transfer | 64% | 6.4 |
| Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Herma Hall | 6 to 12 | 63% | 6.4 |
| Frederick Douglass Academy | Gregory Hodge | 6 to 12 | 68% | 6.3 |
| Talent Unlimited HS | Linda Hamil | Julia Richman Ed Campus | 60% | 6.2 |
| Baruch College Campus HS | Alicia Perez-Katz | 77% | 6.1 | |
| Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis HS | Edward Demeo | 60% | 6.0 | |
| Bread and Roses Integrated Arts HS | Rodney Lofton | 79% | 5.8 | |
| Academy for Social Action | Rhokeisha Ford | 6 to 12 | 54% | 5.8 |
| Harvey Milk HS | Alan Nolan | transfer | 55% | 5.6 |
| Marta Valle HS | Mimi Fortunato | 61% | 5.5 | |
| Henry Street School for International Studies | Erin Balet | 6 to 12 | 54% | 5.4 |
| New Heights Academy Charter School | Lisa Hackett/Kaye Houlihan | 6 to 12 Charter School | 52% | 5.3 |
| Heritage School | Luis Alberto Duany | 55% | 5.2 | |
| Liberty HS for Newcomers | Melodee Khristan | transfer | 56% | 5.1 |
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