PS 165 ROBERT E SIMON

PS 165 ROBERT E SIMON is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in NEW YORK, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, serveing 448 students in grades pre-K through 5.

PS 165 ROBERT E SIMON is one of 44 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, a district that instructs 19,478 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PS 165 ROBERT E SIMON lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% White, 13% Black, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 165 ROBERT E SIMON sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.4%; this one delivers 49.5%.

In the broader community, census data for New York County shows median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which PS 165 ROBERT E SIMON is one.

The closest other public school is MOTT HALL II, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 165 ROBERT E SIMON. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 165 ROBERT E SIMON at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 165 ROBERT E SIMON has ticked down 25%, going from 600 students in 2018 to 448 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 61% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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