PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 19 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY
PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in NEW YORK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6. The school educates 399 students in grades pre-K through 8.
Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6, which oversees 45 schools and 17,415 students, PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY lists that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 2% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 90% 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%.
With demographic context factored in, PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.1%.
In the surrounding community, census data for New York County shows median household income runs about $103,931, 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/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY is one.
The closest other public school is NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 421 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.
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