47 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LOWER SCHOOL (THE)

As a micro-enrollment elementary-level community in NEW YORK, New York, 47 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LOWER SCHOOL (THE) enrolls 172 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so 47 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LOWER SCHOOL (THE) sits 61% smaller than that benchmark.

47 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LOWER SCHOOL (THE) is one of 119 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, a district that works with 54,599 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, 47 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LOWER SCHOOL (THE) records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 17% White, 17% Black, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, 47 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LOWER SCHOOL (THE) tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.3%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (New York County) logs that median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. 47 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LOWER SCHOOL (THE) is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE & ENGLISH SECONDARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around 47 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LOWER SCHOOL (THE). On composite proficiency, 47 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LOWER SCHOOL (THE) comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 70.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 195 students in 2018 compared to 172 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 42% to 54% across the same window.

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