PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON

Located at 100 W 84TH ST, in NEW YORK, New York, PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON is a medium-sized primary school that enrolls 529 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3 comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 19,478 students; PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON is among them.

Demographically, PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON lists that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 16% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 9% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.6%, the actual is 85.0%, a residual of +15.4 points.

In the broader community, New York County reports that median household income runs about $103,931, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

MS 243 CENTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON. On composite proficiency, PS 9 SARAH ANDERSON comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 61.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 618 students in 2018 compared to 529 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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