MOTT HALL SCHOOL (THE)

Located at 401 W 164TH ST, in NEW YORK, New York, MOTT HALL SCHOOL (THE) is a compact junior high that teaches 316 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so MOTT HALL SCHOOL (THE) sits 40% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 45 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 (17,415 students total), MOTT HALL SCHOOL (THE) accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, MOTT HALL SCHOOL (THE) logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 16% White, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, MOTT HALL SCHOOL (THE) lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at MOTT HALL SCHOOL (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, MOTT HALL SCHOOL (THE) sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.8%; this one delivers 69.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for New York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. MOTT HALL SCHOOL (THE) is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

COMMUNITY MATH AND SCIENCE PREP is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MOTT HALL SCHOOL (THE) comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 8%: 292 students in 2018 compared to 316 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 83% to 68% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.