New York County schools: Which ethnicity was most represented in 2021-22 school year?

NY State Education Department Board of Regents Vice Chancellor Josephine Victoria Finn | New York State Education Department

By NYC Gazette

Sep 28, 2023

Of the many ethnicities represented in New York schools, the most prevalent ethnicity among students enrolled in New York schools in the 2021-22 school year were Hispanic, according to New York State Education Department.

Of the 125,064 students attending New York County schools, 44% were Hispanic. white students were the second largest ethnicity, making up 19.6% of New York County students.

In the previous school year, Hispanic was also the most common student ethnicity in New York County, representing 46.7% of the student body.

Ballet Tech/New York City Public School for Dance had the most even distribution of races among county schools, with 32.3% white students, 20.8% Asian or Pacific Islander students, 18.5% Hispanic students, 16.2% Black students, 10.8% multiracial students, and 1.5% American Indian or Alaska Native students.

Compared to the previous year, total enrollment in public schools in the county dropped by 5.6% in the 2021-22 school year.

In 2022, New York had roughly one teacher for every 12 students, which is lower than the national average of one teacher for every 16 students. A lower student-to-teacher ratio has been found to help improve students' school performance.

A 2021 report from the NYC Center for Innovation Through Data Intelligence revealed racial and gender groups were seeing better outcomes compared to 2013, though significant disparities remained between different groups. Persistent and substantial gaps were observed, particularly between Black and Hispanic students.

Ethnicities in New York County in 2021-22 School Year

Most Prevalent Ethnicities in New York County Schools in 2021-22 School Year

School name	Most prevalent ethnicity	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
47 American Sign Language and English Lower School	Hispanic	49.7%	175
A. Philip Randolph Campus High School	Hispanic	62.2%	1,491
Academy for Software Engineering	Hispanic	50.7%	426
American Sign Language & English Secondary School	Hispanic	73.4%	241
Amistad Dual Language School	Hispanic	95.8%	400
Anderson School	White	44.7%	508
Art and Design High School	Hispanic	42.1%	1,521
Ballet Tech/New York City Public School for Dance	White	32.3%	130
Bard High School Early College	White	35.2%	614
Baruch College Campus High School	White	38.4%	482
Battery Park City School	White	52.6%	726
Beacon High School	White	37.6%	1,507
Bilingual Bicultural School	Hispanic	90.4%	240
Business of Sports School	Hispanic	62%	468
Cascades High School	Hispanic	53.7%	108
Castle Bridge School	Hispanic	74.1%	193
Central Park East High School	Hispanic	48.9%	507
Central Park East I	Hispanic	42.2%	161
Central Park East II	Hispanic	47.5%	383
Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School	Hispanic	54.4%	447
Children's Workshop School	White	34.9%	281
City College Academy of the Arts	Hispanic	93.7%	599
City Knoll Middle School	Hispanic	61%	118
Clinton School	White	61.2%	769
College Academy	Hispanic	87.7%	324
Columbia Secondary School	Hispanic	35.4%	658
Community Action School-M.S. 258	Hispanic	45.8%	177
Community Health Academy of the Heights	Hispanic	86.2%	618
Community Math and Science Prep	Hispanic	79%	143
Dos Puentes Elementary School	Hispanic	72.2%	396
Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem	Black	65.2%	267
Earth School	Hispanic	44.8%	241
East Side Community School	Hispanic	53.8%	702
East Side Elementray School-P.S. 267	White	64.9%	385
East Side Middle School	White	52.4%	416
East Village Community School	White	45.2%	301
Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School	Hispanic	54.8%	146
Eleanor Roosevelt High School	White	54.9%	537
Ella Baker School	White	35.9%	320
Emma Lazarus High School	Hispanic	38.6%	215
Esperanza Preparatory Academy	Hispanic	81.6%	462
Essex Street Academy	Hispanic	42.9%	352
Facing History School	Hispanic	68.3%	338
Fiorello H. Laguardia High School	White	38.8%	2,382
Food and Finance High School	Hispanic	56.7%	432
Forsythe Satellite Academy	Hispanic	60%	110
Frank Mccourt High School	Hispanic	43%	407
Frederick Douglass Academy	Black	62%	880
Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School	Black	59.8%	353
Global Learning Collaborative	Hispanic	75.2%	412
Gramercy Arts High School	Hispanic	51.8%	531
Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics	Hispanic	100%	515
Hamilton Grange Middle School	Hispanic	78.9%	318
Harbor Heights	Hispanic	100%	76
Harlem Renaissance High School	Hispanic	49%	155
Harold O. Levy School	Hispanic	91.8%	194
Harvest Collegiate High School	Hispanic	56.7%	436
Harvey Milk High School	Hispanic	56.7%	60
Heritage School	Hispanic	66.3%	320
High School 560 City-As-School	Hispanic	46.1%	380
High School Mathematics Science and Engineering at Ccny	Asian or Pacific Islander	29.8%	524
High School for Climate Justice	Hispanic	57.7%	331
High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies	Asian or Pacific Islander	91.9%	370
High School for Environmental Studies	Hispanic	60.2%	1,096
High School for Excellence and Innovation	Hispanic	85.2%	149
High School for Health Careers & Sciences	Hispanic	80.2%	404
High School for Health Professions & Human Services	Hispanic	51.9%	1,724
High School for Language and Diplomacy	Hispanic	60.4%	212
High School for Law & Public Service	Hispanic	76.9%	342
High School for Law Advocacy and Community Justice	Hispanic	62.1%	393
High School for Media & Communications	Hispanic	86.8%	325
High School of Arts and Technology	Hispanic	65.5%	447
High School of Economics & Finance	Hispanic	48.8%	731
High School of Fashion Industries	Hispanic	57.1%	1,719
High School of Hospitality Management	Hispanic	73.3%	240
Hudson High School of Learning Technologies	Hispanic	63.5%	307
Humanities Preparatory Academy	Hispanic	57.6%	262
I.S. 289	Asian or Pacific Islander	46.2%	234
I.S. 528 Bea Fuller Rodgers School	Hispanic	96.6%	237
Independence High School	Hispanic	57.8%	237
Innovation Diploma Plus	Hispanic	67.7%	96
Institute for Collaborative Education	White	42.4%	495
International High School at Union Square	Hispanic	62.1%	298
Inwood Early College for Health and Information Technologies	Hispanic	91.7%	408
Isaac Newton Middle School for Math and Science	Hispanic	71.9%	306
J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch	Asian or Pacific Islander	37.8%	897
J.H.S. 143 Eleanor Roosevelt	Hispanic	89.1%	192
J.H.S. 167 Robert F. Wagner	White	50.6%	1,148
J.H.S. 54 Booker T. Washington	White	48.4%	771
Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis High School	Hispanic	64.2%	201
James Baldwin School-A School for Expeditionary Lrning	Black	45.2%	146
James Weldon Johnson School	Hispanic	72%	554
Judith S. Kaye School	Black	53.1%	130
Lafayette Academy	White	40.2%	164
Landmark High School	Hispanic	61.3%	351
Leadership & Public Service High School	Hispanic	62.8%	282
Lexington Academy	Hispanic	75.2%	541
Liberty High School Academy for Newcomers	Hispanic	54.3%	317
Locke School of Arts and Engineering	Black	43.4%	272
Lower East Side Preparatory High School	Hispanic	55.4%	417
Lower Manhattan Arts Academy	Hispanic	59.2%	331
Lower Manhattan Community Middle School	White	33.7%	347
M.S. 131	Asian or Pacific Islander	60.7%	224
M.S. 224 Manhattan East School for Arts & Academics	Hispanic	54.6%	185
M.S. 243 Center School	White	55.6%	250
M.S. 245 Computer School	White	46.7%	364
M.S. 247 Dual Language Middle School	Hispanic	93.6%	204
M.S. 250 West Side Collaborative Middle School	Hispanic	58.5%	94
M.S. 255 Salk School of Science	White	48.7%	341
M.S. 297	White	42.2%	609
M.S. 319 Marie Teresa	Hispanic	94.6%	278
M.S. 324 Patria Mirabal	Hispanic	84.7%	262
Manhattan Academy for Arts and Languages	Hispanic	85.4%	192
Manhattan Bridges High School	Hispanic	99.2%	485
Manhattan Business Academy	Hispanic	60.8%	403
Manhattan Center for Science & Mathematics	Hispanic	45.9%	1,549
Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School	Hispanic	52.8%	477
Manhattan Early College School for Advertising	Hispanic	50.4%	468
Manhattan International High School	Hispanic	44.2%	285
Manhattan School for Career Development	Hispanic	54.6%	216
Manhattan Village Academy	Hispanic	57.5%	419
Manhattan/Hunter Science High School	Hispanic	29.6%	432
Maxine Greene High School for Imaginative Inquiry	Hispanic	56.1%	114
Middle School 322	Hispanic	95.3%	255
Millennium High School	Asian or Pacific Islander	50.3%	648
Mosaic Preparatory Academy	Hispanic	46.4%	209
Mott Hall High School	Hispanic	51.9%	187
Mott Hall II	Hispanic	43%	358
Mott Hall School	Hispanic	72.6%	248
Murray Hill Academy	Hispanic	49%	245
Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers	Black	46.7%	135
Muscota	White	41.9%	246
Neighborhood School	White	38.6%	246
New Design High School	Hispanic	58.4%	490
New Design Middle School	Black	50.5%	111
New Explorations Into Sciencetech and Math High School	White	39.3%	1,639
New York City Ischool	White	38%	468
New York City Lab High School for Collaborative Studies	White	51.5%	485
New York City Lab M.S. for Collaborative Studies	Asian or Pacific Islander	47.5%	537
New York City Museum School	White	36.7%	499
Orchard Collegiate Academy	Hispanic	55.9%	297
P.S. 1 Alfred E. Smith	Asian or Pacific Islander	39.7%	219
P.S. 102 Jacques Cartier	Hispanic	54.8%	166
P.S. 108 Assemblyman Angelo Del Toro Educational Complex	Hispanic	61.8%	382
P.S. 11 William T. Harris	White	42.9%	730
P.S. 110 Florence Nightingale	Hispanic	47.5%	335
P.S. 111 Adolph S. Ochs	Hispanic	45.6%	329
P.S. 112 Jose Celso Barbosa	Hispanic	67%	224
P.S. 115 Alexander Humboldt	Hispanic	92.7%	369
P.S. 116 Mary Lindley Murray	White	43.7%	382
P.S. 123 Mahalia Jackson	Black	50%	420
P.S. 124 Yung Wing	Asian or Pacific Islander	90.6%	596
P.S. 125 Ralph Bunche	Hispanic	35.6%	261
P.S. 126 Jacob August Riis	Asian or Pacific Islander	61.8%	599
P.S. 128 Audubon	Hispanic	91%	531
P.S. 129 John H. Finley	Hispanic	51.6%	248
P.S. 130 Hernando De Soto	Asian or Pacific Islander	88%	642
P.S. 132 Juan Pablo Duarte	Hispanic	93.9%	148
P.S. 133 Fred R. Moore	Black	52.8%	197
P.S. 134 Henrietta Szold	Hispanic	57.6%	172
P.S. 138	Hispanic	60.8%	643
P.S. 140 Nathan Straus	Hispanic	72.3%	343
P.S. 142 Amalia Castro	Hispanic	75.6%	332
P.S. 145 Bloomingdale School	Hispanic	48.5%	371
P.S. 146 Ann M. Short	Hispanic	60.9%	327
P.S. 149 Sojourner Truth	Black	54.9%	266
P.S. 15 Roberto Clemente	Hispanic	51.4%	177
P.S. 150	White	43.4%	159
P.S. 152 Dyckman Valley	Hispanic	84.6%	480
P.S. 153 Adam Clayton Powell	Hispanic	73.7%	392
P.S. 154 Harriet Tubman	Black	63.3%	226
P.S. 155 William Paca	Hispanic	75.7%	210
P.S. 158 Bayard Taylor	White	67.5%	647
P.S. 161 Pedro Albizu Campos	Hispanic	76.2%	613
P.S. 163 Alfred E. Smith	Hispanic	51.3%	413
P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon	Hispanic	50.6%	356
P.S. 166 Richard Rogers School of the Arts & Science	White	54.4%	592
P.S. 169 Robert F. Kennedy	Black	49%	302
P.S. 171 Patrick Henry	Hispanic	57.6%	750
P.S. 173	Hispanic	91.1%	395
P.S. 175 Henry H. Garnet	Black	44.7%	284
P.S. 18 Park Terrace	Hispanic	94.9%	277
P.S. 180 Hugo Newman	Black	48.7%	396
P.S. 183 Robert L. Stevenson	White	66.3%	511
P.S. 184 Shuang Wen	Asian or Pacific Islander	70%	720
P.S. 188 Island School	Hispanic	59.9%	387
P.S. 189	Hispanic	93.5%	489
P.S. 19 Asher Levy	Hispanic	57.4%	176
P.S. 192 Jacob H. Schiff	Hispanic	84.6%	298
P.S. 194 Countee Cullen	Black	55.5%	155
P.S. 197 John B. Russwurm	Black	57.7%	220
P.S. 198 Isador E. Ida Straus	White	43.1%	413
P.S. 199 Jessie Isador Straus	White	58.8%	541
P.S. 2 Meyer London	Asian or Pacific Islander	64.5%	363
P.S. 20 Anna Silver	Hispanic	54.7%	351
P.S. 200 James Mccune Smith School	Black	56%	302
P.S. 206 Jose Celso Barbosa	Hispanic	72.8%	453
P.S. 212 Midtown West	White	40.9%	286
P.S. 226	Hispanic	51.7%	259
P.S. 234 Independence School	White	69.5%	456
P.S. 242 Young Diplomats Magnet Academy	Black	60.5%	129
P.S. 28 Wright Brothers	Hispanic	78.9%	427
P.S. 290 Manhattan New School	White	65.5%	412
P.S. 3 Charrette School	White	66.1%	566
P.S. 30 Hernandez/Hughes	Hispanic	53%	168
P.S. 33 Chelsea Prep	Hispanic	28.5%	499
P.S. 333 Manhattan School for Children	White	47.7%	503
P.S. 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt	Hispanic	52.7%	260
P.S. 35	Hispanic	44.2%	240
P.S. 36 Margaret Douglas	Hispanic	58.5%	289
P.S. 38 Roberto Clemente	Hispanic	50.8%	177
P.S. 4 Duke Ellington	Hispanic	84%	463
P.S. 40 Augustus Saint-Gaudens	White	56%	612
P.S. 41 Greenwich Village	White	63.4%	492
P.S. 42 Benjamin Altman	Asian or Pacific Islander	78.4%	527
P.S. 452	White	46.1%	369
P.S. 46 Arthur Tappan	Black	48.7%	462
P.S. 48 Po Michael J. Buczek	Hispanic	89%	356
P.S. 5 Ellen Lurie	Hispanic	89.1%	470
P.S. 51 Elias Howe	Hispanic	47.3%	442
P.S. 527 East Side School for Social Action	White	49.9%	435
P.S. 59 Beekman Hill International	White	56.2%	571
P.S. 6 Lillie D. Blake	White	65.4%	572
P.S. 64 Robert Simon	Hispanic	74.9%	215
P.S. 7 Samuel Stern	Hispanic	60.8%	314
P.S. 721 Manhattan Occupational Training Center	Hispanic	49.2%	189
P.S. 75 Emily Dickinson	Hispanic	52.7%	438
P.S. 76 A. Phillip Randolph	Black	75.9%	290
P.S. 77 Lower Lab School	Asian or Pacific Islander	46.4%	345
P.S. 79 Horan School	Hispanic	59%	256
P.S. 8 Luis Belliard	Hispanic	93.4%	361
P.S. 811 Mickey Mantle School	Hispanic	48%	421
P.S. 83 Luis Munoz Rivera	Hispanic	71.3%	331
P.S. 84 Lillian Weber	White	51.7%	580
P.S. 87 William Sherman	White	59.3%	629
P.S. 89	White	53%	347
P.S. 9 Sarah Anderson	White	59.8%	470
P.S. 92 Mary Mcleod Bethune	Black	50.2%	207
P.S. 94	Hispanic	48.6%	381
P.S. 96 Joseph Lanzetta	Hispanic	66.9%	362
P.S. 98 Shorac Kappock	Hispanic	91.6%	332
P.S./I.S. 187 Hudson Cliffs	Hispanic	48.6%	727
P.S./I.S. 210 21ST Century Academy	Hispanic	96.6%	414
P.S./I.S. 217 Roosevelt Island	White	35.7%	690
Pace High School	Hispanic	49%	606
Park East High School	Hispanic	60.3%	365
Paula Hedbavny School	Hispanic	76.4%	415
Peck Slip School	White	46.2%	379
Professional Performing Arts High School	White	41.2%	548
Professor Juan Bosch Public School	Hispanic	77.7%	260
Quest To Learn	Hispanic	42.1%	568
Renaissance School of the Arts	Hispanic	52.7%	186
Repertory Company High School for Theatre Arts	Hispanic	40.6%	234
Richard R. Green High School of Teaching	Hispanic	51.2%	283
River East Elementary	Hispanic	50%	242
River School	White	37.3%	450
Riverside School for Makers and Artists	Hispanic	48.8%	504
Satellite Academy High School	Hispanic	63.8%	152
School for Global Leaders	Hispanic	59%	166
School of the Future High School	White	43.2%	731
Seed Harlem	Black	57.2%	138
Sixth Avenue Elementary School	White	59.1%	342
Special Music School	White	39.5%	294
Spruce Street School	White	47.3%	440
Star Academy P.S. 63	Hispanic	64.9%	185
Stem Institute of Manhattan	Black	48.2%	114
Stephen T. Mather Building Arts and Craftmanship High School	Hispanic	63.9%	396
Stuyvesant High School	Asian or Pacific Islander	72.1%	3,323
Tag Young Scholars	Asian or Pacific Islander	49.6%	528
Talent Unlimited High School	Hispanic	47.5%	488
Teachers College Community School	Black	45.1%	344
Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School	Black	76.2%	181
Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning & Social Change	Black	65%	520
Tompkins Square Middle School	Hispanic	44.8%	326
Union Square Academy for Health Sciences	Hispanic	63.3%	444
Unity Center for Urban Technologies	Hispanic	60.4%	308
University Neighborhood High School	Hispanic	41.3%	526
University Neighborhood Middle School	Hispanic	61.6%	198
Urban Academy Laboratory High School	White	33.6%	146
Urban Assembly Academy for Future Leaders	Black	62.8%	78
Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law	Hispanic	52.5%	343
Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology	Hispanic	60.7%	455
Urban Assembly Maker Academy	Hispanic	44.8%	509
Urban Assembly New York Harbor School	Hispanic	43.4%	521
Urban Assembly School for Emergency Management	Hispanic	58.8%	291
Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce	Hispanic	52.2%	178
Urban Assembly School for Green Careers	Hispanic	67.8%	255
Urban Assembly School for Media Studies	Hispanic	61.5%	364
Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts	Black	51.2%	332
Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women	Hispanic	49.6%	115
Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction	Hispanic	67.7%	235
Vanguard High School	Hispanic	63%	433
Wadleigh Perf and Visual Arts	Hispanic	48.4%	395
Washington Heights Academy	Hispanic	94.2%	531
Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School	Hispanic	92.4%	953
West End Secondary School	White	56.8%	748
West Prep Academy	Hispanic	45.9%	148
William Lynch School	Hispanic	49.1%	212
Yorkville Community School	White	47%	381
Yorkville East Middle School	White	53.8%	221
Young Women's Leadership School	Hispanic	56.9%	459