PS 116 MARY LINDLEY MURRAY

Set in NEW YORK, New York, PS 116 MARY LINDLEY MURRAY is a reasonably sized elementary campus, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2. It instructs 426 students across grades pre-K through 6.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 runs 119 schools in total, collectively educating 54,599 students. PS 116 MARY LINDLEY MURRAY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PS 116 MARY LINDLEY MURRAY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 30% White, 14% Asian, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, PS 116 MARY LINDLEY MURRAY lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 116 MARY LINDLEY MURRAY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.2%, the actual is 57.8%, a residual of +2.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (New York County) reports that median household earnings sit near $103,931, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which PS 116 MARY LINDLEY MURRAY is one.

UNITY CENTER FOR URBAN TECHNOLOGIES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 116 MARY LINDLEY MURRAY at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 69.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. PS 116 MARY LINDLEY MURRAY's enrollment has contracted 22% since 2018, when it stood at 545 (now 426). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 20% to 37%. Class-load math has rose: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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