PS 171 PATRICK HENRY

PS 171 PATRICK HENRY is one of the heavily attended elementary-level communitys in NEW YORK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4, with 738 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 67% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4, which oversees 30 schools and 11,316 students, PS 171 PATRICK HENRY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, PS 171 PATRICK HENRY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 22% Black, 9% Asian, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 171 PATRICK HENRY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% 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 north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 171 PATRICK HENRY ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 46.0%; PS 171 PATRICK HENRY posts 85.5%, +39.5 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (New York County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 171 PATRICK HENRY is one.

CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 171 PATRICK HENRY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 171 PATRICK HENRY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. PS 171 PATRICK HENRY's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 722 (now 738). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 27% to 22% over that span.

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