MS 324 PATRIA MIRABAL

Set in NEW YORK, New York, MS 324 PATRIA MIRABAL is a micro-enrollment middle school, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6. It serves 185 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 65% below the state mean of about 531.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6, which oversees 45 schools and 17,415 students, MS 324 PATRIA MIRABAL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, MS 324 PATRIA MIRABAL logs that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% White, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, MS 324 PATRIA MIRABAL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (New York County) logs that median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MS 324 PATRIA MIRABAL is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

MS 319 MARIE TERESA 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, MS 324 PATRIA MIRABAL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 53%: 392 students in 2018 compared to 185 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 11% to 3%. Class-load math has fell: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 in 2025.

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