Summary:
The 15 elementary schools located in New York City Geographic District # 1 serve students from diverse backgrounds and demonstrate a wide range of academic performance. While some schools, like PS 184 Shuang Wen and PS 110 Florence Nightingale, consistently rank among the top elementary schools in New York state, others, such as PS 142 Amalia Castro, PS 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt, and PS 134 Henrietta Szold, struggle to meet proficiency standards.
The top-performing schools in the district, like PS 184 Shuang Wen, which ranks 59th out of 2,445 schools statewide and earns a 5-star rating, excel across multiple metrics, with 78-87% of students proficient or better in English Language Arts and 94-95% proficient or better in Math. In contrast, the lowest-performing schools have proficiency rates well below the district and state averages, with many grade levels seeing less than 30% of students meeting standards in ELA and Math.
The data suggests that socioeconomic factors, as measured by free and reduced lunch rates, may play a significant role in student outcomes, with higher-poverty schools tending to have lower proficiency levels. However, the relationship between resources, such as per-student spending and student-teacher ratios, and academic performance is not always clear, indicating that targeted interventions and support for struggling schools could potentially make a meaningful difference in improving educational outcomes across the district.
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