PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH

PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in NEW YORK, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, with 466 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 19,478 students; PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH is among them.

In terms of who attends, PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH lists that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 14% Black, 13% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH tighter than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 54.6%.

In the surrounding community, New York County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH is one.

Nearest neighbor: YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH. On composite proficiency, PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 163 ALFRED E SMITH has shrank 17%, going from 563 students in 2018 to 466 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 42% to 64%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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