TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
Located at 168 MORNINGSIDE AVE, in NEW YORK, New York, TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is a small elementary-level community that educates 295 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 443.
TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one of 28 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5, a district that works with 7,761 students overall.
In terms of who attends, TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL shows that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 8% White, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.3%, the actual is 56.9%, a residual of +9.6 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for New York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, 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 TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: PS 129 JOHN H FINLEY, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.2%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL has increased 4%, going from 285 students in 2018 to 295 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 36% to 44%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, members of the TEACHERS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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