Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater
About
The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater is a performing arts institution located in New York, NY. It offers programs including a Two-Year Conservatory and summer intensive courses, focusing primarily on theater education.
Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell recipients graduate at a higher rate than non-Pell students here — unusual and worth investigating.
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.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
National Association of Schools of Theatre, Commission on Accreditation
Action history · 4
- Apr 2023Renewal of AccreditationNational Association of Schools of Theatre, Commission on Accreditation
- Apr 2021Renewal of AccreditationNational Association of Schools of Theatre, Commission on Accreditation
- Mar 2019Renewal of AccreditationNational Association of Schools of Theatre, Commission on Accreditation
- Mar 2018Renewal of AccreditationNational Association of Schools of Theatre, Commission on Accreditation
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, 13 students received $87K in Pell grants, alongside $311K 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 59 borrowers who entered repayment, 6 (10.1%) 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 NPST
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.
NPST vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions NPST 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectNeighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater | 44% | — | 67 | $33,096 | — |
American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles | — | 82.8% | 112 | $40,991 | — |
American Academy of Dramatic Arts-New York | — | 92.0% | 187 | $54,625 | Special Focus Two-Year: Arts & Design |
Circle in the Square Theatre School | — | 8.0% | 39 | $29,537 | — |
Fortis Institute-Nashville | — | — | 393 | $29,669 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts | — | 68.2% | 70 | $24,148 | Special Focus Two-Year: Arts & Design |
New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts | — | 42.8% | 251 | $39,413 | Special Focus Two-Year: Arts & Design |
School of Professional Horticulture, New York Botanical Garden | — | 0.0% | 14 | — | — |
St Paul's School of Nursing-Queens | — | — | 1,056 | $31,766 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
St Paul's School of Nursing-Staten Island | — | — | 656 | $39,377 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
| Peer group median | 44% | 55.5% | 150 | $33,096 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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