Empire Beauty School-Peekskill
About
Empire Beauty School is a chain of for-profit cosmetology schools in the United States. Headquartered in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, it is the largest system of cosmetology schools in the country. Founded in 1946, it currently has 76 schools nationwide. It trains students as cosmetologists, estheticians, electrologists, hair stylists and colorists, makeup artists, manicurists and nail technicians.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 12.0-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 1 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 1 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data1 · 100.0%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
Action history · 1
- Jun 2022Renewal of AccreditationNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 39 students received $167K in Pell grants, alongside $224K in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 96 borrowers who entered repayment, 7 (7.2%) defaulted within three years — above the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Empire
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Empire vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Empire selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectEmpire Beauty School-Peekskill | 89% | — | 49 | $18,627 | — |
Academy of Beauty Professionals | — | — | 31 | $23,899 | — |
Adrian H. Wallace Barber Academy | — | — | 33 | $11,291 | — |
Arthur's Beauty College | — | — | 29 | $12,008 | — |
Baltimore Studio of Hair Design | — | — | 34 | $17,001 | — |
Beaver Beauty Academy | — | — | 47 | $11,027 | — |
Beyond Measure Barbering Institute | — | — | 38 | $11,406 | — |
Borner's Barber College | — | — | 54 | $22,045 | — |
Butte Academy of Beauty Culture | — | — | — | $9,031 | — |
Celebrity Stylist Beauty School | — | — | 51 | $14,290 | — |
Ea La Mar's Cosmetology & Barber College | — | — | 31 | $29,747 | — |
EINE Inc | — | — | 47 | $36,029 | — |
Elite Academy of Hair Design | — | — | 61 | $13,208 | — |
Exposito School of Hair Design | — | — | 14 | $15,547 | — |
Franklin Hair Academy School of Cosmetology | — | — | 116 | $22,321 | — |
Gem City College | — | — | 41 | $13,443 | — |
Hair Professionals Career College | — | — | 55 | $21,085 | — |
Innovate Salon Academy | — | — | 288 | $38,617 | — |
Institute of Advanced Medical Esthetics | — | — | 7 | $11,317 | — |
JT's Cuts Academy | — | — | 37 | $28,017 | — |
La James International College-Cedar Falls | — | — | 54 | $18,965 | — |
Ohio State School of Cosmetology-Canal Winchester | — | — | 57 | $17,117 | — |
Phagans Beauty College | — | — | 59 | $8,551 | — |
Pineville Beauty School | — | — | 45 | $12,923 | — |
Ponca City Beauty College | — | — | 38 | $7,691 | — |
Prestige Health & Beauty Sciences Academy | — | 100.0% | 119 | — | — |
Protege Academy | — | — | 72 | $11,818 | — |
Pure Aesthetics Natural Skincare School | — | — | 53 | $24,347 | — |
Reflections Academy of Beauty | — | — | 40 | $21,319 | — |
Riggins Urban Barber College | — | — | 85 | $21,194 | — |
William Edge Institute | — | — | 73 | $10,612 | — |
| Peer group median | 89% | 100.0% | 48 | $16,274 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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