PS 123 MAHALIA JACKSON

PS 123 MAHALIA JACKSON operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in NEW YORK, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5. Current enrollment sits at 394 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5, which oversees 28 schools and 7,761 students, PS 123 MAHALIA JACKSON is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, PS 123 MAHALIA JACKSON records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 46% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, PS 123 MAHALIA JACKSON reports 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at PS 123 MAHALIA JACKSON qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than New York County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 123 MAHALIA JACKSON tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (New York County) logs that median household earnings sit near $103,931, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which PS 123 MAHALIA JACKSON is one.

The closest other public school is SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 5, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 123 MAHALIA JACKSON at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 60.7%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 123 MAHALIA JACKSON's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 477 (now 394). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 40% to 46%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

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