PS 79 HORAN SCHOOL

Set in NEW YORK, New York, PS 79 HORAN SCHOOL is a very small senior high, run under NYC SPECIAL SCHOOLS - DISTRICT 75. It educates 250 students across grade UG. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so PS 79 HORAN SCHOOL sits 63% below that benchmark.

NYC SPECIAL SCHOOLS - DISTRICT 75 runs 60 schools in total, collectively educating 27,533 students. PS 79 HORAN SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PS 79 HORAN SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 38% Black, 4% White, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at PS 79 HORAN SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, census data for New York County shows median household earnings sit near $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. PS 79 HORAN SCHOOL is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

Nearest neighbor: PS 7 SAMUEL STERN, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 79 HORAN SCHOOL has rose 6%, going from 235 students in 2018 to 250 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 26% to 38% over that span.

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