PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN

PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN is one of the tight-knit elementary schools in NEW YORK, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5, with 182 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN sits 59% below that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5, which oversees 28 schools and 7,761 students, PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN records that the largest single group is Black, at 63% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 32% Hispanic, 3% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at school resources, PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN records 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of New York County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for New York County indicate median household earnings sit near $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 154 HARRIET TUBMAN is one.

Nearest neighbor: HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN. On composite proficiency, PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.3%.

PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 154 HARRIET TUBMAN's enrollment has decreased 38% since 2018, when it stood at 293 (now 182). Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 55% to 63%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 in 2025.

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