PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE)

Located at 134 W 122ND ST, in NEW YORK, New York, PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE) is a micro-enrollment elementary school that educates 145 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE) sits 67% below that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 19,478 students; PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE) is among them.

In terms of who attends, PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE) shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 32% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE) reports 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.5:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than New York County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.3%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -8.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (New York County) shows that median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE) is one.

Nearest neighbor: FUTURE LEADERS INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE). Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE) at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.9%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. PS 242 YOUNG DIPLOMATS MAGNET ACADEMY (THE)'s enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 171 (now 145). Hispanic enrollment moved from 33% to 63% across the same window.

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