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What's something PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
526
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2·NCES 360007702480
PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO
143 BAXTER ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 · (212) 226-8072 · New York County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL526 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
327 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
78.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
80.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 80.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
75.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO
PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO's state test result (75.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO this school | 526 | 62.2% | 75.1% |
| PS 376 FLUSHING | 546 | 59.7% | 82.3% |
| PS 124 YUNG WING NEW YORK | 453 | 56.3% | 90.8% |
| PS 162 JOHN GOLDEN BAYSIDE | 441 | 72.1% | 69.1% |
| PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN NEW YORK | 476 | 66.8% | 74.5% |
| PS 133 THE BELLEROSE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE BELLEROSE | 596 | 63.9% | 71.9% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.1% | #259 of 2,335 | #43 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #342 of 2,342 ▼ 52 | #46 of 151 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #286 of 2,343 ▼ 19 | #45 of 151 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 526 | #708 of 2,585 | #32 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #1,618 of 2,338 | #77 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.5% | #1,620 of 2,388 | #103 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.2% | #1,117 of 2,534 | #106 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -42.3% | #90 of 1,757 | #15 of 114 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
526
-221 (-30%) vs 2020
-49% since 2010-11, when it was 1,022
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 16.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 526 | 40.5 | 13.0:1 | 62% (327) |
| 2023-24 | 575 | 42.6 | 13.5:1 | 64% (369) |
| 2022-23 | 605 | 46 | 13.2:1 | 50% (301) |
| 2020-21 | 747 | 45 | 16.6:1 | 49% (364) |
| 2017-18 | 912 | 56 | 16.3:1 | 48% (437) |
| 2015-16 | 968 | 53 | 18.3:1 | 48% (462) |
| 2010-11 | 1,022 | 55 | 18.6:1 | 82% (834) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO.
About PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO
PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO operates as a mid-sized elementary school in NEW YORK, New York. The school enrolls 526 students in pre-K through 5.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 has 119 schools and 54,599 students, and PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO is one of those schools.
About 77% of the student body at PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO is Asian. Smaller groups are 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% White. County-wide, 12% of New York County residents are Asian. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 39%.
On staff are 40.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.0:1. It is about the same as the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. About 62% of students at PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in New York County report 70%.
PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 93% of New York public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO beats its 52.1% prediction with 75.1%, a top-10% result in New York.
The county, New York County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $103,931, about 64% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. The county has 358 public schools and about 152,104 students.
EMMA LAZARUS HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.3 miles from PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO ranks 3rd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 30%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 16.6 to 13.0 over 4 years.
PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
New York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,629,477
Census ACS
Median income
$103,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
358
152,104 students
Quick facts
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Nearby schools
- EMMA LAZARUS HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 279
- PACE HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 499
- MS 1310.3 mi · 257
- PS 124 YUNG WING0.3 mi · 453
- PS 1 ALFRED E SMITH0.4 mi · 200
- PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN0.4 mi · 476
Frequently asked questions
About PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTOWhat is the total enrollment at PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO?
PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO enrolls approximately 526 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO serve?
PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO have?
PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO?
Student demographics at PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO are roughly 4% White, 11% Hispanic, 2% Black, 77% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO?
PS 130 HERNANDO DE SOTO is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 in New York County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.