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What's the most underrated thing about PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
456
Elementary
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6·NCES 360008302546
PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY
93 NAGLE AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10040 · (212) 567-5456 · New York County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL456 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
431 students
DISTRICT 87% · 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 | 89 | 20% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · 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
48.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 34.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
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 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY
PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY's state test result (40.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY this school | 456 | 94.5% | 40.0% |
| PS 123 SUYDAM BROOKLYN | 446 | 95.1% | 32.2% |
| PS 5 ELLEN LURIE NEW YORK | 425 | 95.1% | 30.1% |
| LEEP DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 435 | 91.7% | 49.5% |
| EAST ELMHURST COMMUNITY SCHOOL EAST ELMHURST | 433 | 94.7% | 40.2% |
| PS 246 POE CENTER BRONX | 455 | 97.8% | 31.3% |
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 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,621 of 2,335 | #110 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,559 of 2,342 ▲ 299 | #102 of 151 ▲ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,401 of 2,343 ▲ 107 | #102 of 151 ▲ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 456 | #1,040 of 2,585 | #48 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,539 of 2,338 | #71 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.5% | #1,941 of 2,388 | #117 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.5% | #215 of 2,534 | #30 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.6% | #592 of 1,757 | #73 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
456
-31 (-6%) vs 2020
-41% since 2010-11, when it was 779
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 456 | 35.7 | 12.8:1 | 95% (431) |
| 2023-24 | 466 | 33 | 14.1:1 | 94% (440) |
| 2022-23 | 481 | 37.7 | 12.8:1 | 94% (454) |
| 2020-21 | 487 | 35 | 13.9:1 | 95% (464) |
| 2017-18 | 574 | 45 | 12.8:1 | 97% (559) |
| 2015-16 | 645 | 42 | 15.4:1 | 90% (582) |
| 2010-11 | 779 | 55 | 14.2:1 | 92% (720) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY.
About PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY
PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in NEW YORK, New York. Its 456 students are spread across pre-K through 5.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 has a total of 45 schools and 17,415 students, PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY among them.
At PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY, Hispanic students make up 85% of the student body. It is also 7% multiracial, 5% Black, and 2% White. New York County's residents are about 24% Hispanic, 60 points below the school's share. By the diversity index, PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY comes in at 28%.
Teachers at PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY total 35.7 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.8:1. Elementary schools in New York average about 12.8:1, a similar figure. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 95%. Across public schools in New York County, the average is 70%.
PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 42% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
In New York, PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 40.0% actual against a predicted 40.2%.
New York County has about 1,629,477 residents, and median household income is about $103,931, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 64% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Federal data list 358 public schools in New York County, with a combined enrollment of about 152,104.
PROFESSOR JUAN BOSCH PUBLIC SCHOOL is located less than a tenth of a mile from PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY comes in 5th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 456, 6% below the 487 of 2020-21. Students per teacher fell from 13.9 in 2020-21 to 12.8 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6
- A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,421 students
- WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOLCombined · 908 students
- PS/IS 187 HUDSON CLIFFSElementary · 744 students
- GREGORIO LUPERON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICSHigh · 658 students
- PS 173Elementary · 597 students
- CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTSHigh · 573 students
Other schools in NEW YORK
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,251 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICSHigh · 1,657 students
- NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 1,620 students
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 1Combined · 1,520 students
Nearby schools
- PROFESSOR JUAN BOSCH PUBLIC SCHOOL0.1 mi · 254
- MIDDLE SCHOOL 3220.1 mi · 235
- CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS0.1 mi · 573
- EQUITY PROJECT CHARTER SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 1,075
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH CAREERS & SCIENCES0.3 mi · 424
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW & PUBLIC SERVICE0.3 mi · 505
Frequently asked questions
About PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEYHow large is PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY?
PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY enrolls approximately 456 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY serve?
PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY have?
PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY?
Student demographics at PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY are roughly 2% White, 85% Hispanic, 5% Black, 0% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY?
PS 152 DYCKMAN VALLEY is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 in New York County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.