TOMPKINS SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL

TOMPKINS SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school of intimate scale in NEW YORK, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1, educateing 290 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so TOMPKINS SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 45% leaner than that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1, which oversees 26 schools and 9,363 students, TOMPKINS SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, TOMPKINS SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%; the rest looks like 16% White, 15% Black, 8% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, TOMPKINS SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TOMPKINS SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.6%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of +3.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (New York County) shows that median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), TOMPKINS SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

EARTH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TOMPKINS SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 43.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. TOMPKINS SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 376 (now 290). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 38% to 58% over that span.

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