Enrollment
315
Elementary
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6·NCES 360008305989
WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE)
1750 AMSTERDAM AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10031 · (212) 862-9940 · New York County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL315 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 61% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
215 students
DISTRICT 87% · 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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 36 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 28% larger than its 6th grade class (36).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 56.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
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
53.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 →
Schools most like WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE)
WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE)'s state test result (53.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) this school | 315 | 68.3% | 53.9% |
| SCHOOL 17 YONKERS | 282 | 68.4% | 38.2% |
| PS 65 ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 340 | 75.0% | 62.0% |
| AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD BRONX | 305 | 65.9% | 65.0% |
| PAIDEIA SCHOOL 24 YONKERS | 281 | 62.6% | 44.3% |
| YONKERS EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY YONKERS | 297 | 61.6% | N/A |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #1,005 of 2,335 | #79 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,129 of 2,342 ▼ 68 | #79 of 151 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,583 of 2,343 ▼ 631 | #113 of 151 ▼ 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 315 | #1,892 of 2,585 | #96 of 158 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #683 of 2,338 | #46 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.3% | #694 of 2,388 | #50 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.3% | #1,005 of 2,534 | #98 of 155 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
315
+106 (+51%) vs 2020
+28% since 2010-11, when it was 247
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 13.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 315 | 29.4 | 10.7:1 | 68% (215) |
| 2023-24 | 249 | 20.9 | 11.9:1 | 67% (166) |
| 2022-23 | 227 | 18 | 12.7:1 | 65% (147) |
| 2020-21 | 209 | 16 | 13.1:1 | 59% (124) |
| 2017-18 | 171 | 16 | 10.7:1 | 71% (121) |
| 2015-16 | 218 | 17 | 12.8:1 | 77% (168) |
| 2010-11 | 247 | 18 | 13.7:1 | 77% (191) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE).
About WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE)
WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) is a small elementary school found in NEW YORK, New York. The school counted 315 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 6. It has 29% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) is one school in a 45-school district, NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6, which enrolls 17,415 students.
More than half of enrollment at WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) is Hispanic: 56%. Enrollment also includes 21% Black, 19% White, and 3% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 32 points above the 24% share among New York County residents. The diversity index for WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) is 60%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 29.4 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 10.7 students per teacher. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Of all students at WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE), 68% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in New York County is similar, at 70%.
On the allk12 Grade, WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) lands at B, ahead of 61% of New York public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 53.9%; the prediction is 49.9%.
American Community Survey estimates for New York County show that median household income comes to about $103,931, roughly 64% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. New York County counts 358 public schools with about 152,104 students.
WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE)'s nearest public school is PS 153 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL (less than a tenth of a mile). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 56.9%; WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE)'s is 53.9%, ranking 4th of 9.
The NCES locale for WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, federal data counted 209 students at WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE); in 2024-25, 315. The grades served may not have been the same in both years. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.1:1 to 10.7:1 over the same years.
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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
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- PS 153 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL0.0 mi · 387
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Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE)What is the total enrollment at WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE)?
WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) enrolls approximately 315 students in grades PK-06.
Is WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) an elementary, middle, or high school?
WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) have?
WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.7:1.
How diverse is WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE)?
WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) reports a student body of 19% White, 56% Hispanic, 21% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) in?
WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) is part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6.
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