UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL

UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a minimally staffed middle-grades school in NEW YORK, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1. The school hosts 131 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 75% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 26 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1 (9,363 students total), UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 20% Black, 5% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.2%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -3.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for New York County put median household income runs about $103,931, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ORCHARD COLLEGIATE ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 35%: 201 students in 2018 compared to 131 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 63% to 71% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 in 2025.

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