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What's something PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
466
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3·NCES 360007802584
PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH
163 W 97TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10025 · (212) 678-2854 · New York County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL466 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
11.7:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
314 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 | 33 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
57.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
56.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 56.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 58.0% |
% 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
54.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 163 ALFRED E SMITH
PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH's state test result (54.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH this school | 466 | 67.4% | 54.6% |
| PS 75 EMILY DICKINSON NEW YORK | 453 | 67.3% | 55.6% |
| FAMILY SCHOOL 32 YONKERS | 562 | 67.1% | 35.7% |
| SCHOOL 29 YONKERS | 580 | 66.9% | 44.2% |
| GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COPIAGUE | 428 | 66.4% | 54.1% |
| LEO F GIBLYN SCHOOL FREEPORT | 519 | 66.5% | 61.9% |
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 163 ALFRED E SMITH ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #977 of 2,335 | #78 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #1,214 of 2,342 ▼ 223 | #82 of 151 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #1,051 of 2,343 ▼ 415 | #84 of 151 ▼ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 466 | #984 of 2,585 | #44 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #1,120 of 2,338 | #61 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.5% | #1,032 of 2,388 | #78 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.4% | #1,024 of 2,534 | #99 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.2% | #744 of 1,757 | #82 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
466
-22 (-5%) vs 2020
-26% since 2010-11, when it was 626
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 466 | 40 | 11.7:1 | 67% (314) |
| 2023-24 | 524 | 40 | 13.1:1 | 66% (348) |
| 2022-23 | 409 | 39 | 10.5:1 | 52% (213) |
| 2020-21 | 488 | 43 | 11.3:1 | 49% (240) |
| 2017-18 | 563 | 43 | 13.1:1 | 48% (270) |
| 2015-16 | 582 | 42 | 13.9:1 | 49% (287) |
| 2010-11 | 626 | 49 | 12.8:1 | 54% (339) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH.
About PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH
PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH is one of the public schools in NEW YORK, New York. It is a medium-sized elementary school. It enrolled 466 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH is one of 44 schools. The district enrolls 19,478 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH, at 64%. Next come 14% Black, 13% White, 5% Asian, and 3% multiracial. That compares with about 24% Hispanic among all New York County residents. The school's diversity index is 55%, meaning two students picked at random have a 55% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Staffing totals 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.7:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 11.7:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH is 67%.
allk12 grades PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH a B. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 50.2%. PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH scores 54.6%.
Census estimates describe New York County this way: the median household income is $103,931, about 64% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. In all, New York County has 358 public schools and roughly 152,104 students.
The closest other public school is YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 5% from 2020-21, when PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH had 488 students, to 2024-25, when it had 466.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 # 3
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,251 students
- BEACON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,372 students
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- WEST END SECONDARY SCHOOLHigh · 722 students
- JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTONMiddle · 720 students
- PS 84 LILLIAN WEBERElementary · 685 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
- YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL0.2 mi · 360
- EDWARD A REYNOLDS WEST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 185
- PS 333 MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN0.2 mi · 438
- COMMUNITY ACTION SCHOOL-MS 2580.2 mi · 139
- LAFAYETTE ACADEMY0.2 mi · 194
- PS 75 EMILY DICKINSON0.3 mi · 453
Frequently asked questions
About PS 163 ALFRED E SMITHHow many students attend PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH?
PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH enrolls approximately 466 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH serve?
PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH is approximately 11.7:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH?
At PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH, the student body is approximately 13% White, 64% Hispanic, 14% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH?
PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 in New York County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.