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JHS 167 ROBERT F WAGNER
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
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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