THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL

Set in NEW YORK, New York, THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL is a rural-scale elementary school, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5. It serves 134 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 70% below the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5 comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 7,761 students; THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL lists that 76% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 20% Hispanic, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.7%; this one delivers 38.7%.

Around the school, census data for New York County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

Nearest neighbor: PS 200 JAMES MCCUNE SMITH SCHOOL (THE), around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL has contracted 40%, going from 222 students in 2018 to 134 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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