It’s been a rocky five years for the Academy for Social Action: A College Board School.
First, the school’s founding principal, Crystal Simmons, was canned for carrying on an on-the-job affair with a female subordinate in 2010.
Then yesterday, the Harlem school learned that it’s facing potential closure in only its sixth year after it was rated with the lowest F grade among high schools in the city — scoring just 19.6 points on a 100-point scale.
Its black mark comes from a plunging four-year graduation rate — which fell from 86.5 percent for the class of 2011 to just 36.5 for the 2012 class.
The city’s average rate was about 65 percent in 2011.
A February review by DOE officials found classes often failed high-performing and struggling students alike.
“There were no activities or assignments provided for students who completed their work in advance of other[s],” reviewers wrote. “In another class . . . some students with disabilities did not understand the math content . . . but their confusion was not acknowledged.”