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Enrollment
372
Middle
DISTRICT 232 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4·NCES 360007902694
PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA
508 E 120TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10035 · (212) 860-5809 · New York County
GRADES 03–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL372 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of New York public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
4.0:1
93 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 7.5:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
345 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 66 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 7 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 62 | 17% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
37.2%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 37.2% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 31.2% |
% 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
33.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% 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 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA
PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA's state test result (33.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA this school | 372 | 92.7% | 33.3% |
| BRONX SCHOOL OF YOUNG LEADERS (THE) BRONX | 342 | 92.4% | 38.7% |
| EMOLIOR ACADEMY BRONX | 388 | 93.8% | 46.4% |
| EVERGREEN MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR URBAN EXPLORATION BROOKLYN | 354 | 90.4% | 38.4% |
| JHS 123 JAMES M KIERNAN BRONX | 466 | 95.3% | 31.9% |
| SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (THE) BRONX | 377 | 95.2% | 48.5% |
Matched among New York middle 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 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #685 of 766 | #35 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #655 of 768 ▲ 34 | #32 of 39 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #487 of 768 ▲ 85 | #29 of 39 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 372 | #473 of 796 | #8 of 42 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 4.0:1 | #2 of 683 | #2 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.2% | #487 of 688 | #21 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.7% | #106 of 773 | #15 of 39 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.0% | #147 of 524 | #15 of 23 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
372
-74 (-17%) vs 2020
+44% since 2010-11, when it was 258
Student : Teacher
4.0:1
was 5.4:1
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 | 372 | 92.7 | 4.0:1 | 93% (345) |
| 2023-24 | 405 | 87.9 | 4.6:1 | 93% (378) |
| 2022-23 | 417 | 91 | 4.6:1 | 89% (370) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 83 | 5.4:1 | 87% (389) |
| 2017-18 | 465 | 72 | 6.5:1 | 84% (392) |
| 2015-16 | 485 | 61 | 8.0:1 | 71% (344) |
| 2010-11 | 258 | 33 | 7.8:1 | 98% (254) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA.
About PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA
PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA is a small middle-grades school in New York, located in NEW YORK. Its enrollment is 372 students, spread over grades 3 through 8. On average, middle schools in New York enroll around 531, and this school is 30% below that mark.
PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA is one of 30 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4, which enrolls 11,316 students in total.
More than half of the students at PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA are Hispanic (77%). The remaining shares are 18% Black and 2% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of New York County's population at about 24%. The diversity index for PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA is 37%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 92.7 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 4.0:1. The gap from the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York is 6.3 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 93%. The 70% average for public schools in New York County is 23 points lower.
PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 14% of New York public middle schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 40.9% for PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA. The school posts 33.3%, 7.6 points below the prediction.
In the surrounding county, New York County, median household income comes to about $103,931, about 64% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. The county's public schools total 358, with about 152,104 students.
Of the public schools around it, PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA is closest to PS 112 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA, less than a tenth of a mile away. PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA at 6th of 8.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school's student count fell 17% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 5.4:1 to 4.0:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
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- NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 1,620 students
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Nearby schools
- PS 112 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA0.0 mi · 221
- RIVER EAST ELEMENTARY0.2 mi · 236
- HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY EAST CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 349
- MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS0.2 mi · 1,657
- ISAAC NEWTON MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE0.2 mi · 253
- STOREFRONT ACADEMY HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 96
Frequently asked questions
About PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSAHow many students attend PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA?
PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA enrolls approximately 372 students in grades 03-08.
Is PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA is a middle school covering grades 03-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA is approximately 4.0:1 (93 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA?
Student demographics at PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA are roughly 2% White, 77% Hispanic, 18% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA in?
PS 206 JOSE CELSO BARBOSA is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.