PS 198 ISADOR E IDA STRAUS

PS 198 ISADOR E IDA STRAUS, an average-sized primary school in NEW YORK, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, hosts 516 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 comprises 119 schools with combined enrollment of 54,599 students; PS 198 ISADOR E IDA STRAUS is among them.

Demographically, PS 198 ISADOR E IDA STRAUS logs that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 31% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 8% Black, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 198 ISADOR E IDA STRAUS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.5%, the actual is 76.8%, a residual of +16.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (New York County) logs 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%. PS 198 ISADOR E IDA STRAUS is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

PS 77 LOWER LAB 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 198 ISADOR E IDA STRAUS. On composite proficiency, PS 198 ISADOR E IDA STRAUS comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 198 ISADOR E IDA STRAUS's enrollment has rose 12% since 2018, when it stood at 461 (now 516). Hispanic enrollment moved from 23% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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