PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN

As a compact elementary-level community in NEW YORK, New York, PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN works with 344 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3. That puts it 22% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN is one of 44 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, a district that hosts 19,478 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN logs that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 39% Hispanic, 11% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

On the resource side, The school employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.8%; this one delivers 40.6%.

Zooming out to the county, New York County reports that median household income runs about $103,931, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN is one campus in the mix.

NEW YORK FRENCH-AMERICAN CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN. On composite proficiency, PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN's enrollment has contracted 37% since 2018, when it stood at 548 (now 344). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 29% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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