Enrollment
134
Elementary
DISTRICT 262 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5·NCES 360008105780
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL
276 W 151ST ST, NEW YORK, NY 10039 · (212) 368-8731 · New York County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL134 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
12 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
125 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +21.0pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 21 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
134
-88 (-40%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 13.1:1
% White
0%
was 1%
% Hispanic
20%
was 18%
% Black
76%
was 78%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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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New York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,629,477
Census ACS
Median income
$103,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
358
152,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5
- COLUMBIA SECONDARY SCHOOLHigh · 714 students
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMYHigh · 619 students
- HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CCNYHigh · 576 students
- PS 161 PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOSElementary · 527 students
- THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING & SOCIAL CHANGEHigh · 408 students
- PS 123 MAHALIA JACKSONElementary · 394 students
Other schools in NEW YORK
- STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,261 students
- FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,251 students
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS & HUMAN SERVICESHigh · 1,728 students
- MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICSHigh · 1,657 students
- NEW EXPLORATIONS INTO SCIENCETECH AND MATH HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 1,620 students
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 1Combined · 1,520 students
Nearby schools
- PS 200 JAMES MCCUNE SMITH SCHOOL (THE)0.1 mi · 274
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY0.1 mi · 619
- PS 194 COUNTEE CULLEN0.4 mi · 144
- HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY NORTH CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 394
- PS 46 ARTHUR TAPPAN0.4 mi · 363
- NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL OF HARLEM0.4 mi · 623
Frequently asked questions
About THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOLHow large is THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL?
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 134 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL serve?
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL have?
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL employs 12 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.4:1.
What is the student diversity at THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL?
Student demographics at THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL are roughly 20% Hispanic, 76% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL in?
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 5.
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