JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON

Set in NEW YORK, New York, JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON is an average-sized middle school, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3. It teaches 720 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 36% bigger than the state mean of about 531.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 19,478 students; JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON is among them.

Looking at the student body, JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON records that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 12% multiracial, 8% Black. That composition is broadly in line with New York County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON shows 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.0%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for New York County shows median household earnings sit near $103,931, 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 JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON is one.

PS 145 BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON. On composite proficiency, JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTON comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 851 students in 2018 compared to 720 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 58% to 46%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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