PS 4 DUKE ELLINGTON

As an average-sized elementary-level community in NEW YORK, New York, PS 4 DUKE ELLINGTON serves 428 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6.

PS 4 DUKE ELLINGTON is one of 45 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6, a district that works with 17,415 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 4 DUKE ELLINGTON lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%); the rest comes out to 8% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, PS 4 DUKE ELLINGTON shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 83% of students at PS 4 DUKE ELLINGTON qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of New York County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 4 DUKE ELLINGTON tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for New York County put median household earnings sit near $103,931, 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 4 DUKE ELLINGTON is one.

The closest other public school is COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 4 DUKE ELLINGTON ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 4 DUKE ELLINGTON's enrollment has declined 24% since 2018, when it stood at 560 (now 428). The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 91% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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