DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM

DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in NEW YORK, New York, overseen by DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM, works with 554 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 25% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM is a school of DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 55%. The remainder breaks down as 38% Black, 2% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 40.2%; DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM posts 65.9%, +25.7 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (New York County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM is one.

PS 38 ROBERTO CLEMENTE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 600 students in 2018 compared to 554 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 66% to 55%. Class-load math has rose: from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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