Amber Charter School leads all other charter schools in Manhattan with a school-wide score of 88.5 percent in ELA and 97 percent in Math. The ELA results indicate that nearly nine out of every ten students in Amber’s 3rd, 4th and 5th grades are reading at or above grade level. In math 100% of the 5th graders are at or above grade level.
Located in East Harlem, Amber Charter School is led by Inwood residents Dr. Vasthi Reyes and Luis Miranda (founder of the Manhattan Times).
Amber, one of the top five charter schools in the city according to ELA test results, has an almost 100 percent minority student body. Its 350 students are housed in a 100 year-old school building on E. 106th Street that the school’s board of trustees purchased five years ago. Board of Trustees’ chairman Luis Miranda, elated by the tests results, pointed out that “everyone has worked very hard to create the best charter school in the city.” “This year,” Miranda said, “Amber is up for re-chartering and this is certainly a great beginning.”
Other Northern Manhattan neighborhood charter schools also did well on standardized English tests. At Harlem Science and Arts Charter, 87.8 percent of students were reading at or above grade level. Similarly, Leadership Village Charter and Harlem Village Academy’s students scored 87.2 and 86.7 percent, respectively, on ELA tests.
Amber has been named one of the 50 best charter schools in the country.
Excerpted from: Manhattan Times
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Posted on June 17, 2009 by D. Bell