LOCKE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ENGINEERING (THE)

LOCKE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ENGINEERING (THE), a small elementary school in NEW YORK, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, educates 327 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 26% leaner than typical.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, which oversees 44 schools and 19,478 students, LOCKE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ENGINEERING (THE) is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, LOCKE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ENGINEERING (THE) records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 28% Black, 19% White, 12% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, LOCKE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ENGINEERING (THE) reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 60% of students at LOCKE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ENGINEERING (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LOCKE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ENGINEERING (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 42.2%, a residual of -10.8 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%. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which LOCKE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ENGINEERING (THE) is one.

The closest other public school is HARLEM LINK CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LOCKE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ENGINEERING (THE) ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 47.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. LOCKE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ENGINEERING (THE)'s enrollment has ticked up 33% since 2018, when it stood at 245 (now 327). Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 58% to 28%. Class-load math has loosened: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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