Summary:
The 10471 zip code in New York is home to a single elementary school, PS 81 Robert J Christen, which serves grades K-5 with a total enrollment of 672 students. The school is part of the New York City Geographic District #10, which is ranked 715 out of 865 districts in the state and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
PS 81 Robert J Christen stands out as an academically high-performing school, consistently ranking in the top 15% of New York elementary schools over the past three school years, with a high of 197th out of 2,439 schools in 2022-2023. The school's proficiency rates on state assessments are significantly higher than the district and state averages, particularly in math, where the 3rd grade proficiency rate was 83.72% in 2023-2024, compared to 37.95% for the district and 53.93% for the state.
Despite having a relatively high proportion of economically disadvantaged students, with 44.05% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2022-2023, PS 81 Robert J Christen has maintained its academic excellence. The school's spending per student for the 2022-2023 school year was $16,513, which is higher than the national average but not unusually high for a school in New York City. The school also had a student-teacher ratio of 14.2 to 1 in 2022-2023, slightly lower than the national average.
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