LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a close-knit middle school in NEW YORK, New York, LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL teaches 313 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 41% below that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 comprises 119 schools with combined enrollment of 54,599 students; LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 31%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 30% Hispanic, 23% Asian, 9% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below New York County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.8%, the actual is 75.3%, a residual of +19.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for New York County indicate median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RICHARD R GREEN HIGH SCHOOL OF TEACHING, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 71.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL has fell 18%, going from 383 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share declined from 42% to 23%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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