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JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)BeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER
JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER operates as a large middle school in NEW YORK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2. Current enrollment sits at 945 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER sits 78% larger than that benchmark.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, which oversees 119 schools and 54,599 students, JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER lists that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 7% multiracial, 7% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER lists 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Roughly 31% of students at JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 82.4%.
In the surrounding community, New York County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER is one.
The closest other public school is ELEANOR ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 82.1%.
The school occupies an inner-city site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 29%: 1,335 students in 2018 compared to 945 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.
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