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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