JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SCHOOL

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SCHOOL, an average-sized elementary campus in NEW YORK, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4, educates 516 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4 runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 11,316 students. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 18% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of New York County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for New York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MOSAIC PREPARATORY ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.7%.

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SCHOOL operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 36% since 2018, when it stood at 803 (now 516). Hispanic enrollment moved from 68% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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