PS 92 MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE

PS 92 MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE is one of the micro-enrollment elementary schools in NEW YORK, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5, with 165 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 63% below typical.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5 comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 7,761 students; PS 92 MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE is among them.

On the student-mix side, PS 92 MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 44% Black, 4% White, 2% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 95% of students are eligible 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.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 92 MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 47.1%, a residual of +7.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for New York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 92 MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

The closest other public school is ST. HOPE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 92 MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE. On composite proficiency, PS 92 MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 37%: 263 students in 2018 compared to 165 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 61% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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