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PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 96 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON
As a middle-of-the-pack K-12 campus in NEW YORK, New York, PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON enrolls 541 students from grades pre-K through 12, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 comprises 119 schools with combined enrollment of 54,599 students; PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON lists that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.7:1, putting PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 12% of students at PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than New York County's rate of about 70%.
With demographic context factored in, PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.7%, the actual is 87.2%, a residual of +16.5 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for New York County put median household income runs about $103,931, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON is one.
Nearest neighbor: VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 183 ROBERT L STEVENSON at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 74.5%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 589 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 58% across the same window.
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