MANHATTAN — Schools on the Upper East Side had both the highest and the lowest state exam scores in District 2 this year.
P.S. 77, the Lower Lab School topped the list with the most number of students passing the state's English Language Arts and math exams, but two blocks away, Life Sciences Secondary School came in last place, according to Department of Education data.
At the Lower Lab, an elementary school with a Gifted and Talented program, 98.3 percent of students passed the ELA and 96 percent passed the math, records show.
The school, which shares a campus with P.S. 198 at 1700 Third Ave., enrolled 350 students during the 2014-2015 school year, and had an attendance rate of 97 percent, according to DOE records.
At Life Sciences, only 8.9 percent of students passed their ELA test and 5.2 percent passed the math, putting the school in last place in District 2, which includes more than 50 schools, according the DOE.
The middle school has historically had lower test scores and was at the bottom of the list last year too, but it improved its math scores this year, jumping from zero students passing math to 5.2 percent.
But fewer students passed their ELA tests this year, dropping from 14.3 percent in 2015 to 8.9 percent this year.
The 320 E. 96th St. school serves more than 600 students, with 30 percent of students chronically absent, according to DOE data of the 2014-2015 school year. Roughly 70 percent of students receive free lunch, according to Inside Schools.
District 2 spans the east side of Manhattan, south of 97th Street, excluding the Lower East Side. It also covers the West Side, south of 59th Street, and Midtown.
Representatives of the schools did not immediately return calls for comment on Wednesday.
Across the city, roughly 38 percent of students met Common Core standards on their ELA exam and 36.4 percent were proficient in math. District 2 and Queens District 26 performed the highest on the tests citywide.
DNAinfo New York mapped out the test results below, coloring each school based on the percent of students in third through eighth grade that passed the (ELA) or math exam. Click on your school to see how it fared on each exam along with where it ranked among schools in its district.
