1
Enrollment
606
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2·NCES 360007702152
PS 33 CHELSEA PREP
281 9TH AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10001 · (212) 244-6426 · New York County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL606 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
363 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 30 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
64.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
59.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 59.0% |
% 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
60.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 33 CHELSEA PREP
PS 33 CHELSEA PREP's state test result (60.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 33 CHELSEA PREP this school | 606 | 59.9% | 60.7% |
| OUR WORLD NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL ASTORIA | 681 | 61.2% | 65.6% |
| PS 139 ALEXINE A FENTY BROOKLYN | 706 | 67.1% | 53.5% |
| PS 17 HENRY DAVID THOREAU LONG ISLAND CITY | 610 | 65.4% | 57.4% |
| PS 45 JOHN TYLER STATEN ISLAND | 751 | 63.5% | 52.7% |
| PS 99 KEW GARDENS KEW GARDENS | 758 | 61.2% | 70.2% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 33 CHELSEA PREP ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.7% | #727 of 2,335 | #64 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #1,092 of 2,342 ▼ 138 | #76 of 151 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #746 of 2,343 ▼ 273 | #64 of 151 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 606 | #438 of 2,585 | #20 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #1,956 of 2,338 | #91 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.0% | #74 of 2,388 | #7 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.9% | #1,162 of 2,534 | #109 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.5% | #1,570 of 1,757 | #107 of 114 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
606
+50 (+9%) vs 2020
+59% since 2010-11, when it was 381
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 606 | 41.7 | 14.5:1 | 60% (363) |
| 2023-24 | 628 | 41 | 15.3:1 | 59% (368) |
| 2022-23 | 550 | 39 | 14.1:1 | 54% (299) |
| 2020-21 | 556 | 37 | 15.0:1 | 49% (273) |
| 2017-18 | 628 | 39 | 16.1:1 | 46% (291) |
| 2015-16 | 630 | 31 | 20.3:1 | 47% (296) |
| 2010-11 | 381 | 30 | 12.7:1 | 75% (285) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 33 CHELSEA PREP.
About PS 33 CHELSEA PREP
This page covers PS 33 CHELSEA PREP, a medium-sized elementary school in NEW YORK, New York. School enrollment was 606 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students.
Enrollment across the 119 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 totals 54,599 students.
At PS 33 CHELSEA PREP, the largest share of students is Hispanic, at 41%. After that, the student body is 18% White, 17% Asian, 16% Black, and 7% multiracial. Census figures show New York County is about 24% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 74%, meaning two students picked at random have a 74% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Staffing totals 41.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.5:1. That is higher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 60%. That is 10 points below the 70% average for public schools in New York County.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, PS 33 CHELSEA PREP receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, PS 33 CHELSEA PREP is 7.7 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for New York County show that the median household income is $103,931, about 64% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Besides PS 33 CHELSEA PREP, New York County has 357 other public schools.
The shortest distance from PS 33 CHELSEA PREP to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to HIGH SCHOOL OF FASHION INDUSTRIES (THE). Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, PS 33 CHELSEA PREP is 4th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
2024-25 enrollment was 606, a 9% gain from 556 in 2020-21.
Questions about school safety, transportation, and start times can be posted here. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- ART AND DESIGN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,485 students
- HIGH SCHOOL OF FASHION INDUSTRIES (THE)High · 1,455 students
- JHS 104 SIMON BARUCHMiddle · 1,023 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESHigh · 1,007 students
Other schools in NEW YORK
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,251 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICSHigh · 1,657 students
- NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 1,620 students
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 1Combined · 1,520 students
Nearby schools
- HIGH SCHOOL OF FASHION INDUSTRIES (THE)0.3 mi · 1,455
- PS 11 SARAH J GARNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 662
- HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES0.4 mi · 189
- JAMES BALDWIN SCHOOL-A SCHOOL FOR EXPEDITIONARY LRNING0.4 mi · 138
- HUMANITIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.4 mi · 261
- QUEST TO LEARN0.4 mi · 390
Frequently asked questions
About PS 33 CHELSEA PREPWhat is the total enrollment at PS 33 CHELSEA PREP?
PS 33 CHELSEA PREP enrolls approximately 606 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PS 33 CHELSEA PREP serve?
PS 33 CHELSEA PREP serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 33 CHELSEA PREP?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 33 CHELSEA PREP is approximately 14.5:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 33 CHELSEA PREP?
At PS 33 CHELSEA PREP, the student body is approximately 18% White, 41% Hispanic, 16% Black, 17% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 33 CHELSEA PREP?
PS 33 CHELSEA PREP is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 in New York County.
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