PS 48 PO MICHAEL J BUCZEK

PS 48 PO MICHAEL J BUCZEK is a low-enrollment elementary school in NEW YORK, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6. The school teaches 368 students in grades pre-K through 5.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 17,415 students; PS 48 PO MICHAEL J BUCZEK is among them.

On the student-mix side, PS 48 PO MICHAEL J BUCZEK records that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 7% White, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above New York County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 48 PO MICHAEL J BUCZEK sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.5%; this one delivers 28.7%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for New York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 48 PO MICHAEL J BUCZEK is one.

PS 132 JUAN PABLO DUARTE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 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 48 PO MICHAEL J BUCZEK ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 51.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 48 PO MICHAEL J BUCZEK has ticked down 33%, going from 547 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 95% to 89% across the same window.

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