NEW DESIGN MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in NEW YORK, New York, NEW DESIGN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a tiny junior high, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5. It enrolls 92 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 83% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5 comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 7,761 students; NEW DESIGN MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, NEW DESIGN MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%; the rest is composed of 35% Black, 2% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, NEW DESIGN MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.0:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at NEW DESIGN MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify 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 somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NEW DESIGN MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.6%; this one comes in at 15.9%, -22.7 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (New York County) records that median household income runs about $103,931, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NEW DESIGN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

Nearest neighbor: KIPP INFINITY CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NEW DESIGN MIDDLE SCHOOL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. NEW DESIGN MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 28% since 2018, when it stood at 128 (now 92). The Black share of enrollment fell from 55% to 35% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 8.5:1 in 2018 to 5.0:1 today.

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