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Park East High School

How Park East is governed, funded, and planning for 2025-26. Part of New York City Geographic District #4.

Who makes decisions for Park East?

A District 4 NYC public high school with school-level planning through its SLT.

Park East High School is a New York City Public Schools high school in Geographic District 4. NYCPS sets the system budget and policy; Park East's School Leadership Team develops the annual school plan with school stakeholders. The collected SLT slides show agendas and updates, but not separately approved minutes or recorded votes.

School governance

NYCPS identifies Park East as DBN 04M495 in Geographic District 4, led by Principal Suzy Ort.

School planning

The 2025-26 Comprehensive Educational Plan describes literacy, academic, college-readiness, and family-engagement goals.

Budget scope

The School Budget at a Glance lists $8.48 million in school funding; it is a funding snapshot, not actual spending.

The slides record discussion and updates. They do not by themselves show that the SLT approved a decision or vote.

What the current public record shows

2025-26 school fundingverified
8,484,694 dollars
2025-26 funding per studentverified
20,796 dollars
2025-26 enrollmentverified
408 students

Major projects

College-readiness plan

Published plan

The CEP plans to raise the share of students applying to college from 90% to 95% by June 2026, using a college advisor, classroom support, family meetings, and FAFSA support.

Next: The plan calls for ongoing application-data review; the collected records do not provide a later outcome report.
  1. Planned regular family meetings for the college process begin.
  2. Planned family-meeting period ends.

Funding

The plan identifies a dedicated college advisor and CARA support; it does not state a dollar amount.

Phone-free school day

In use and under review

SLT slides describe locked Yondr pouches for student phones during the school day, with rules for lunch, trips, and damaged pouches.

Next: The collected slides show continued feedback; they do not record a formal SLT vote.
  1. SLT materials describe the phone-free plan and Yondr pouches.
  2. SLT materials say a random Yondr check worked well and parent outreach continued.

Funding

The collected materials do not state a cost.

Twelve stored official records were reviewed, including NYCPS annual publications, PTA resources, and 2025-26 SLT agenda slides.

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