Enrollment
404
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3·NCES 360007806187
PS 452
210 W 61ST ST, NEW YORK, NY 10023 · (212) 259-6222 · New York County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL404 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% 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.
- 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
16.8:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
141 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 95 | 24% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 34 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 79% larger than its 5th grade class (34).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
74.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
80.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 75.0% | 74.0% |
% 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
73.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 452
PS 452's state test result (73.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 452 this school | 404 | 34.9% | 73.6% |
| BARDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BARDONIA | 351 | 30.2% | 59.9% |
| JACKSON AVENUE SCHOOL MINEOLA | 436 | 30.0% | 51.2% |
| PS 35 CLOVE VALLEY SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 367 | 41.1% | 95.5% |
| MAY MOORE PRIMARY SCHOOL DEER PARK | 465 | 33.1% | N/A |
| GEORGE W MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NANUET | 409 | 28.6% | N/A |
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 452 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.6% | #290 of 2,335 | #47 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #343 of 2,342 ▲ 95 | #47 of 151 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #389 of 2,343 ▼ 224 | #50 of 151 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 404 | #1,336 of 2,585 | #66 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #2,223 of 2,338 | #114 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.6% | #87 of 2,388 | #8 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.9% | #1,845 of 2,534 | #126 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.8% | #117 of 606 | #10 of 28 |
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
404
+25 (+7%) vs 2020
+635% since 2010-11, when it was 55
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 404 | 24 | 16.8:1 | 35% (141) |
| 2023-24 | 387 | 24 | 16.1:1 | 39% (150) |
| 2022-23 | 363 | 22 | 16.5:1 | 28% (100) |
| 2020-21 | 379 | 27 | 14.0:1 | 25% (95) |
| 2017-18 | 329 | 26 | 12.7:1 | 22% (73) |
| 2015-16 | 319 | 24 | 13.3:1 | 13% (40) |
| 2010-11 | 55 | 6 | 9.2:1 | 18% (10) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 452.
About PS 452
Located in NEW YORK, New York, PS 452 is a medium-sized elementary school. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 404 students in pre-K through 5.
The 44 schools of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, including PS 452, enroll 19,478 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at PS 452. The largest is White students, at 37%. The remaining shares are 28% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 10% Black, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of New York County's population at about 48%. PS 452's diversity index is 74%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school has about 16.8 students per teacher and 24 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 4.0 above the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 35%. The rate at public schools in New York County averages 70%, higher than here.
PS 452 is graded A by allk12, scoring above 86% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with PS 452's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 62.2%. PS 452 scores 73.6%, 11.4 points above that line.
Recent Census Bureau figures for New York County show that the median household income is $103,931, roughly 64% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. PS 452 is one of 358 public schools in the county.
The closest public school, WEST END SECONDARY SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile from PS 452. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, PS 452 places 4th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 404 students in 2024-25, 25 more than the 379 it had in 2020-21. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.0:1 to 16.8:1.
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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 # 3
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,251 students
- BEACON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,372 students
- PS 87 WILLIAM SHERMANElementary · 751 students
- WEST END SECONDARY SCHOOLHigh · 722 students
- JHS 54 BOOKER T WASHINGTONMiddle · 720 students
- PS 84 LILLIAN WEBERElementary · 685 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
- WEST END SECONDARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 722
- RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS (THE)0.2 mi · 480
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 2,251
- URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MEDIA STUDIES0.2 mi · 331
- HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY0.2 mi · 392
- MANHATTAN/HUNTER SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 447
Frequently asked questions
About PS 452How many students attend PS 452?
PS 452 enrolls approximately 404 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 452 an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 452 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PS 452 have?
PS 452 employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.
What is the student diversity at PS 452?
Student demographics at PS 452 are roughly 37% White, 28% Hispanic, 10% Black, 19% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is PS 452 in?
PS 452 is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3.
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