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Enrollment
605
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2·NCES 360007702569
PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR
1458 YORK AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10075 · (212) 744-6562 · New York County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL605 STUDENTS
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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
15.5:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
85 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 | 49 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
51%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
91.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
88.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 91.0% | 88.0% |
| 2023-24 | 83.0% | 89.0% |
% 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
83.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 158 BAYARD TAYLOR
PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR's state test result (83.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR this school | 605 | 14.0% | 83.9% |
| MINNESAUKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST SETAUKET | 644 | 13.8% | 74.0% |
| PS 6 LILLIE D BLAKE NEW YORK | 655 | 11.8% | 88.2% |
| BURR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL COMMACK | 669 | 11.1% | 63.9% |
| MAPLE EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILLIAMSVILLE | 597 | 13.6% | 80.8% |
| MAPLE WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILLIAMSVILLE | 670 | 19.4% | 70.9% |
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 158 BAYARD TAYLOR ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.9% | #114 of 2,335 | #27 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #164 of 2,342 ▼ 50 | #31 of 151 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 91.0% | #68 of 2,343 no change | #17 of 151 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 605 | #442 of 2,585 | #21 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #2,103 of 2,338 | #104 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.2% | #1,183 of 2,388 | #88 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.0% | #2,365 of 2,534 | #146 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.1% | #509 of 1,757 | #67 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
605
-66 (-10%) vs 2020
-18% since 2010-11, when it was 739
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 605 | 39 | 15.5:1 | 14% (85) |
| 2023-24 | 620 | 37.9 | 16.4:1 | 14% (86) |
| 2022-23 | 644 | 41 | 15.7:1 | 13% (86) |
| 2020-21 | 671 | 44 | 15.3:1 | 8% (57) |
| 2017-18 | 787 | 46 | 17.1:1 | 12% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 771 | 42 | 18.4:1 | 12% (89) |
| 2010-11 | 739 | 47 | 15.7:1 | 17% (126) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR.
About PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR
PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR is one of the public schools in NEW YORK, New York. It is a medium-sized elementary school. The school serves 605 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in New York is roughly 443 students; this school is 37% above that.
PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR is one school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, a system of 119 schools with 54,599 students.
At 67%, White students outnumber all other groups at PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR combined. The school is also 13% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 2% Black. The White share of the county population is lower, at 48%. The chance that two students picked at random at PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 51%.
Teachers at the school number 39 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.5:1. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is lower than this school's figure. Roughly 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in New York County average 70%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR would score about 69.8%. It scores 83.9%, 14.1 points above that figure.
In the county around the school, New York County, median household income is about $103,931, about 64% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. A total of 358 public schools operate in New York County, serving about 152,104 students.
The next-closest public school is YORKVILLE EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 79.5% on proficiency, and PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR is above that at 83.9%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 671 to 605.
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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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- YORKVILLE EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 250
- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 538
- PS 290 MANHATTAN NEW SCHOOL0.4 mi · 444
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- VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 396
Frequently asked questions
About PS 158 BAYARD TAYLORWhat is the total enrollment at PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR?
PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR enrolls approximately 605 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR serve?
PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR?
Approximately 15.5:1 students per teacher at PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR.
How diverse is PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR?
PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR reports a student body of 67% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 13% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR?
PS 158 BAYARD TAYLOR is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 in New York County.
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