PS 20 ANNA SILVER

As a compact elementary school in NEW YORK, New York, PS 20 ANNA SILVER caters to 313 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 20 ANNA SILVER sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1, which oversees 26 schools and 9,363 students, PS 20 ANNA SILVER is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 20 ANNA SILVER lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 18% Asian, 15% Black, 7% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at school resources, PS 20 ANNA SILVER lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above New York County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, PS 20 ANNA SILVER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.1%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -11.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (New York County) records that the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which PS 20 ANNA SILVER is one.

SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL LEADERS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 20 ANNA SILVER at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 37%: 494 students in 2018 compared to 313 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment decreased from 30% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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