HAROLD O LEVY SCHOOL

HAROLD O LEVY SCHOOL is one of the minimally staffed middle-grades schools in NEW YORK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6, with 127 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 9. Enrollment runs roughly 76% below the state mean of about 531.

Across the 45 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 (17,415 students total), HAROLD O LEVY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, HAROLD O LEVY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). Other groups include 9% Black, 3% White. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, HAROLD O LEVY SCHOOL lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.8:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 97% of students are eligible 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 somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, HAROLD O LEVY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 23.3%, a residual of -16.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for New York County indicate median household earnings sit near $103,931, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), HAROLD O LEVY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

HIGH SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HAROLD O LEVY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HAROLD O LEVY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. HAROLD O LEVY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 53% since 2018, when it stood at 268 (now 127). Hispanic enrollment moved from 94% to 87% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 5.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.