Neighborhood Playhouse
School of the Theater
Private College in New York City, NY. Six-year graduation rate 44%. Median 10-year earnings $29,382.
Students who entered Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater reach a median of $29,382 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 44%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 53% of applicants are offered a place. Only 15 students applied, so treat these rates as directional — small pools swing sharply between cycles. 38% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 44% finish inside six years. Retention is weak: only 40% of full-time first-years return, so roughly three in five leave after one year. At 4:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. As a private nonprofit two-year college, the relevant comparison is other two-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. This is a small school — 71 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 71 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $38,459 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The gap between the $48–75k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($38,459 versus $44,715), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 17% of students receive any. About 45% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 10 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | — |
| $30–48k | — |
| $48–75k | $38,459 |
| $75–110k | $44,715 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 32 of these 71 students, totalling $357,331 — an average of $11,167 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (New York County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)