PS 2

PS 2 is a primary school of modestly sized scale in TROY, New York, run under TROY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 249 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 44% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

TROY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,522 students; PS 2 is among them.

On demographics, PS 2 records that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 24% Hispanic, 19% White, 13% multiracial. By comparison, Rensselaer County as a whole is about 7% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 2 tighter than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Rensselaer County's rate of about 46%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 2 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Rensselaer County indicate median household earnings sit near $87,915, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Rensselaer County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,274 students), PS 2 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HEATLY SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 2 comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 285 students in 2018 compared to 249 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 13% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 8.6:1 in 2018 to 7.5:1 in 2025.

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