PS 197 JOHN B RUSSWURM

As a cozy elementary school in NEW YORK, New York, PS 197 JOHN B RUSSWURM teaches 224 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5. That puts it 49% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5 comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 7,761 students; PS 197 JOHN B RUSSWURM is among them.

On the student-mix side, PS 197 JOHN B RUSSWURM records that 55% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 38% Hispanic, 5% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PS 197 JOHN B RUSSWURM records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PS 197 JOHN B RUSSWURM performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -8.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (New York County) records 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%. PS 197 JOHN B RUSSWURM is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

DEMOCRACY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 197 JOHN B RUSSWURM. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 197 JOHN B RUSSWURM at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.7%.

PS 197 JOHN B RUSSWURM operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. PS 197 JOHN B RUSSWURM's enrollment has decreased 27% since 2018, when it stood at 307 (now 224). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 60% to 55%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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