PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE
PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE, a compact elementary school in NEW YORK, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6, educates 197 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 443.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 17,415 students; PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE is among them.
On demographics, PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). The remainder is composed of 4% Black, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully above typical.
With demographic context factored in, PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.4%; this one delivers 44.2%.
Across the wider county, New York County reports 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. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE is one.
DOS PUENTES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 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, PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE's enrollment has fell 35% since 2018, when it stood at 303 (now 197). Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 97% to 91%.
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