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Enrollment
421
Elementary
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6·NCES 360008302648
PS 189
2580 AMSTERDAM AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10040 · (212) 927-8303 · New York County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL421 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% of New York public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
393 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 68 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
53.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 50.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PS 189
PS 189's state test result (49.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 189 this school | 421 | 93.3% | 49.3% |
| PS 123 SUYDAM BROOKLYN | 446 | 95.1% | 32.2% |
| LEEP DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 435 | 91.7% | 49.5% |
| PS 25 BILINGUAL SCHOOL BRONX | 409 | 96.3% | 40.3% |
| PS 89 CYPRESS HILLS BROOKLYN | 447 | 92.8% | 26.4% |
| PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY NEW YORK | 399 | 90.2% | 53.1% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PS 189 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #1,191 of 2,335 | #90 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,128 of 2,342 ▲ 143 | #78 of 151 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,204 of 2,343 ▼ 35 | #92 of 151 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 421 | #1,249 of 2,585 | #62 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #392 of 2,338 | #33 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.9% | #2,222 of 2,388 | #127 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.3% | #280 of 2,534 | #39 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -48.0% | #47 of 1,757 | #9 of 114 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
421
-145 (-26%) vs 2020
-61% since 2010-11, when it was 1,076
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 12.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 421 | 42.8 | 9.8:1 | 93% (393) |
| 2023-24 | 439 | 37.7 | 11.6:1 | 93% (409) |
| 2022-23 | 453 | 35.7 | 12.7:1 | 95% (429) |
| 2020-21 | 566 | 46 | 12.3:1 | 94% (533) |
| 2017-18 | 810 | 59.5 | 13.6:1 | 93% (750) |
| 2015-16 | 1,020 | 68 | 15.0:1 | 90% (913) |
| 2010-11 | 1,076 | 77 | 14.0:1 | 98% (1,051) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 189.
About PS 189
NEW YORK, New York, is home to PS 189, a medium-sized elementary school. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 421 students in pre-K through 5.
PS 189 is one of 45 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6, which enrolls 17,415 students in total.
The large majority of students at PS 189, 93%, are Hispanic. The remaining shares are 5% Black and 2% White. New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at PS 189 belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 14%.
Teachers at the school number 42.8 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 9.8:1. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. Roughly 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in New York County is 70%.
allk12 grades PS 189 a B. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, PS 189's results are 8.7 points above predicted: 49.3% against 40.7%.
Census estimates describe New York County this way: median household income is about $103,931, about 64% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 358 public schools in New York County, with a combined enrollment of about 152,104.
The nearest public school is HIGH SCHOOL FOR MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS, at about 0.2 miles. PS 189 has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, PS 189 ranks 3rd on proficiency.
Federal data place PS 189 in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 26%, from 566 to 421. The school's ratio fell from 12.3:1 to 9.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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New York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,629,477
Census ACS
Median income
$103,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
358
152,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6
- A PHILIP RANDOLPH CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,421 students
- WASHINGTON HEIGHTS EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOLCombined · 908 students
- PS/IS 187 HUDSON CLIFFSElementary · 744 students
- GREGORIO LUPERON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICSHigh · 658 students
- PS 173Elementary · 597 students
- CITY COLLEGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTSHigh · 573 students
Other schools in NEW YORK
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,251 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICSHigh · 1,657 students
- NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 1,620 students
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 1Combined · 1,520 students
Nearby schools
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS0.2 mi · 359
- COLLEGE ACADEMY (THE)0.2 mi · 347
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH CAREERS & SCIENCES0.2 mi · 424
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW & PUBLIC SERVICE0.2 mi · 505
- EQUITY PROJECT CHARTER SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 1,075
- PS 48 PO MICHAEL J BUCZEK0.3 mi · 368
Frequently asked questions
About PS 189What is the total enrollment at PS 189?
PS 189 enrolls approximately 421 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 189 serve?
PS 189 serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PS 189?
Approximately 9.8:1 students per teacher at PS 189.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 189?
At PS 189, the student body is approximately 2% White, 93% Hispanic, 5% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is PS 189 in?
PS 189 is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.