PS 96 JOSEPH LANZETTA

PS 96 JOSEPH LANZETTA, a mid-sized K-5 school in NEW YORK, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4, teaches 394 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

PS 96 JOSEPH LANZETTA is one of 30 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4, a district that serves 11,316 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PS 96 JOSEPH LANZETTA lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder looks like 16% Black, 4% White. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, PS 96 JOSEPH LANZETTA is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.1%; PS 96 JOSEPH LANZETTA posts 19.3%, -19.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (New York County) logs that median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. PS 96 JOSEPH LANZETTA is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

Nearest neighbor: PS 7 SAMUEL STERN, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 96 JOSEPH LANZETTA comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 96 JOSEPH LANZETTA has changed only slightly, going from 398 students in 2018 to 394 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 68% to 78% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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