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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN administration to hear?
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Enrollment
476
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2·NCES 360007702187
PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN
71 HESTER ST, NEW YORK, NY 10002 · (212) 226-8410 · New York County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL476 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
10.5:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
318 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 | 55 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
53%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
75.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
83.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.0% | 83.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 79.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
74.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in New York's top 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 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN
PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN's state test result (74.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN this school | 476 | 66.8% | 74.5% |
| PS 133 THE BELLEROSE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE BELLEROSE | 596 | 63.9% | 71.9% |
| PS 376 FLUSHING | 546 | 59.7% | 82.3% |
| PS 159 BAYSIDE | 504 | 61.3% | 73.1% |
| PS 184 FLUSHING MANOR WHITESTONE | 462 | 58.9% | 71.1% |
| PS 162 JOHN GOLDEN BAYSIDE | 441 | 72.1% | 69.1% |
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 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.5% | #271 of 2,335 | #45 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #263 of 2,342 ▲ 52 | #41 of 151 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #364 of 2,343 ▲ 20 | #48 of 151 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 476 | #936 of 2,585 | #43 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #619 of 2,338 | #41 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.6% | #1,121 of 2,388 | #86 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.8% | #1,037 of 2,534 | #101 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.3% | #357 of 1,757 | #56 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
476
-66 (-12%) vs 2020
-41% since 2010-11, when it was 810
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 476 | 45.3 | 10.5:1 | 67% (318) |
| 2023-24 | 457 | 42.9 | 10.7:1 | 68% (309) |
| 2022-23 | 482 | 44.5 | 10.8:1 | 59% (282) |
| 2020-21 | 542 | 44 | 12.3:1 | 66% (359) |
| 2017-18 | 655 | 46 | 14.2:1 | 76% (495) |
| 2015-16 | 740 | 50 | 14.8:1 | 60% (447) |
| 2010-11 | 810 | 53 | 15.3:1 | 90% (727) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN.
About PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN
PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN is an elementary school in NEW YORK, New York, according to federal school records. The school counts 476 students across pre-K through 5.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 enrolls 54,599 students in 119 schools, including PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN.
Asian students are the majority at PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN, with 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 10% White, 4% Black, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 12% Asian. Pick two students at random and there is a 53% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 10.5:1, with 45.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 2.3 students per teacher below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 67% of enrollment.
PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN is graded A by allk12, scoring above 92% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN is among the top 10% of schools in New York. Predicted: 50.4%. Actual: 74.5%.
In the county around the school, New York County, the median household income is $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. There are 358 public schools in New York County, enrolling about 152,104 students in all.
The next-closest public school is NEW DESIGN HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
The school enrolled 476 students in 2024-25, 66 fewer than the 542 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 12.3:1 to 10.5:1.
The PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
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- 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
- NEW DESIGN HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 421
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR DUAL LANGUAGE AND ASIAN STUDIES0.1 mi · 368
- LOWER MANHATTAN ARTS ACADEMY0.1 mi · 262
- ESSEX STREET ACADEMY0.1 mi · 366
- URBAN ASSEMBLY ACADEMY OF GOVERNMENT AND LAW0.1 mi · 256
- PACE HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 499
Frequently asked questions
About PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMANHow large is PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN?
PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN enrolls approximately 476 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN serve?
PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN have?
PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.5:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN?
Student demographics at PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN are roughly 10% White, 16% Hispanic, 4% Black, 66% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN in?
PS 42 BENJAMIN ALTMAN is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.