2023-24 School Year: Which ethnicity was most represented in New York County schools?

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By NYC Gazette

Aug 22, 2024

Of the many ethnicities represented in New York schools, the most prevalent ethnicity among students enrolled in New York schools in the 2023-24 school year were Hispanic, according to New York State Education Department.

Of the 123,728 students attending New York County schools, 46.6% were Hispanic. white students were the second largest ethnicity, making up 19% of New York County students.

In the previous school year, Hispanic was also the most common student ethnicity in New York County, representing 42.8% of the student body.

Lower Manhattan Community Middle School had the most even distribution of races among county schools, with 33.2% white students, 26.8% Hispanic students, 25% Asian or Pacific Islander students, 8.5% Black students, and 6.4% multiracial students.

In the 2023-24 school year, the total number of students enrolled in public schools in the county increased 1.8% when compared to the previous 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, particularly between Black and Hispanic students.

Ethnicities in New York County in 2023-24 School Year

Most Prevalent Ethnicities in New York County Schools in 2023-24 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%	177
A. Philip Randolph Campus High School	Hispanic	61%	1,390
Academy for Software Engineering	Hispanic	48.8%	416
American Sign Language & English Secondary School	Hispanic	76.4%	174
Amistad Dual Language School	Hispanic	97.7%	393
Anderson School	White	43.3%	510
Art and Design High School	Hispanic	39.8%	1,484
Ballet Tech/New York City Public School for Dance	White	41.4%	116
Bard High School Early College	White	36.4%	549
Baruch College Campus High School	Asian or Pacific Islander	30.7%	472
Battery Park City School	White	42.6%	803
Beacon High School	White	35.2%	1,433
Bilingual Bicultural School	Hispanic	92.5%	318
Business of Sports School	Hispanic	59.5%	435
Cascades High School	Hispanic	59.6%	136
Castle Bridge School	Hispanic	69.3%	202
Central Park East High School	Hispanic	54%	489
Central Park East I	Hispanic	43.6%	156
Central Park East II	Hispanic	57.1%	422
Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School	Hispanic	51.7%	379
Children's Workshop School	Hispanic	40.3%	320
City College Academy of the Arts	Hispanic	95.2%	557
City Knoll Middle School	Hispanic	70.2%	168
Clinton School	White	54.7%	839
College Academy	Hispanic	88.1%	378
Columbia Secondary School	Hispanic	35.7%	718
Community Action School-M.S. 258	Hispanic	59.4%	138
Community Health Academy of the Heights	Hispanic	84%	574
Community Math and Science Prep	Hispanic	84.7%	131
Dos Puentes Elementary School	Hispanic	74%	434
Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem	Black	61.6%	216
Earth School	Hispanic	47.9%	194
East Side Community School	Hispanic	53.1%	697
East Side Elementray School-P.S. 267	White	58.3%	362
East Side Middle School	White	50.4%	427
East Village Community School	Hispanic	38.9%	471
Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School	Hispanic	62.9%	194
Eleanor Roosevelt High School	White	41%	539
Ella Baker School	Hispanic	37.3%	327
Emma Lazarus High School	Hispanic	49.2%	305
Esperanza Preparatory Academy	Hispanic	80.1%	537
Essex Street Academy	Hispanic	39.3%	356
Facing History School	Hispanic	72.7%	256
Fiorello H. Laguardia High School	White	40.3%	2,140
Food and Finance High School	Hispanic	58.2%	455
Forsythe Satellite Academy	Hispanic	60.1%	158
Frank Mccourt High School	Hispanic	47.7%	426
Frederick Douglass Academy	Black	60.2%	709
Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School	Black	57.9%	318
Global Learning Collaborative	Hispanic	72.2%	395
Gramercy Arts High School	Hispanic	50.9%	511
Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics	Hispanic	94.9%	627
Hamilton Grange Middle School	Hispanic	75.2%	310
Harbor Heights	Hispanic	98.4%	61
Harlem Renaissance High School	Black	60.1%	163
Harold O. Levy School	Hispanic	91%	134
Harvest Collegiate High School	Hispanic	53.7%	406
Harvey Milk High School	Hispanic	68%	75
Heritage School	Hispanic	61.1%	257
High School 560 City-As-School	Hispanic	42.8%	458
High School Mathematics Science and Engineering at Ccny	White	37.8%	579
High School for Climate Justice	Hispanic	61.5%	325
High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies	Asian or Pacific Islander	93%	369
High School for Environmental Studies	Hispanic	56%	1,059
High School for Excellence and Innovation	Hispanic	94.1%	188
High School for Health Careers & Sciences	Hispanic	84.1%	434
High School for Health Professions & Human Services	Hispanic	53.8%	1,667
High School for Language and Diplomacy	Hispanic	50.4%	121
High School for Law & Public Service	Hispanic	85.7%	426
High School for Law Advocacy and Community Justice	Hispanic	63.7%	449
High School for Media & Communications	Hispanic	86.8%	348
High School of Arts and Technology	Hispanic	65.9%	416
High School of Economics & Finance	Hispanic	50.8%	671
High School of Fashion Industries	Hispanic	59.1%	1,532
High School of Hospitality Management	Hispanic	67.3%	211
Hudson High School of Learning Technologies	Hispanic	61%	177
Humanities Preparatory Academy	Hispanic	49.1%	269
I.S. 289	Asian or Pacific Islander	42.2%	258
I.S. 528 Bea Fuller Rodgers School	Hispanic	98.3%	233
Independence High School	Hispanic	66.7%	273
Innovation Diploma Plus	Hispanic	73.8%	122
Institute for Collaborative Education	White	45.8%	480
International High School at Union Square	Hispanic	76.6%	359
Inwood Early College for Health and Information Technologies	Hispanic	94.1%	358
Isaac Newton Middle School for Math and Science	Hispanic	74%	292
J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch	White	33.4%	958
J.H.S. 143 Eleanor Roosevelt	Hispanic	96.7%	180
J.H.S. 167 Robert F. Wagner	White	51.9%	1,007
J.H.S. 54 Booker T. Washington	White	44.2%	710
Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis High School	Hispanic	66.2%	293
James Baldwin School-A School for Expeditionary Lrning	Hispanic	48.5%	130
James Weldon Johnson School	Hispanic	79.6%	578
Judith S. Kaye School	Black	43%	165
Lafayette Academy	Hispanic	46.4%	194
Landmark High School	Hispanic	60.3%	325
Leadership & Public Service High School	Hispanic	61.1%	262
Lexington Academy	Hispanic	78.6%	482
Liberty High School Academy for Newcomers	Hispanic	70.3%	454
Locke School of Arts and Engineering	Hispanic	41.7%	290
Lower East Side Preparatory High School	Hispanic	60.7%	448
Lower Manhattan Arts Academy	Hispanic	54.8%	303
Lower Manhattan Community Middle School	White	33.2%	328
M.S. 131	Asian or Pacific Islander	47.1%	291
M.S. 224 Manhattan East School for Arts & Academics	Hispanic	55.8%	181
M.S. 243 Center School	White	58.6%	251
M.S. 245 Computer School	White	44%	364
M.S. 247 Dual Language Middle School	Hispanic	94.2%	206
M.S. 250 West Side Collaborative Middle School	Hispanic	53.3%	75
M.S. 255 Salk School of Science	White	46.2%	368
M.S. 297	Hispanic	47%	321
M.S. 319 Marie Teresa	Hispanic	97.4%	230
M.S. 324 Patria Mirabal	Hispanic	87.2%	219
Manhattan Academy for Arts and Languages	Hispanic	94.3%	314
Manhattan Bridges High School	Hispanic	99.6%	449
Manhattan Business Academy	Hispanic	60%	408
Manhattan Center for Science & Mathematics	Hispanic	45.3%	1,649
Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School	Hispanic	66.6%	640
Manhattan Early College School for Advertising	Hispanic	55.5%	375
Manhattan International High School	Hispanic	63.7%	377
Manhattan School for Career Development	Hispanic	51.2%	213
Manhattan Village Academy	Hispanic	52.8%	400
Manhattan/Hunter Science High School	Hispanic	38.7%	439
Maxine Greene High School for Imaginative Inquiry	Hispanic	57%	93
Middle School 322	Hispanic	94.2%	224
Millennium High School	Asian or Pacific Islander	43.2%	674
Mosaic Preparatory Academy	Hispanic	62.3%	239
Mott Hall High School	Hispanic	57.1%	240
Mott Hall II	Hispanic	42.6%	380
Mott Hall School	Hispanic	68.5%	276
Murray Hill Academy	Hispanic	47.3%	239
Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers	Black	49.6%	131
Muscota	White	45.6%	283
Neighborhood School	Hispanic	36.6%	224
New Design High School	Hispanic	60%	448
New Design Middle School	Black	48.1%	81
New Explorations Into Sciencetech and Math High School	Asian or Pacific Islander	38.1%	1,613
New York City Ischool	Hispanic	36.2%	448
New York City Lab High School for Collaborative Studies	White	40%	425
New York City Lab M.S. for Collaborative Studies	Asian or Pacific Islander	46.1%	549
New York City Museum School	White	40.2%	480
Orchard Collegiate Academy	Hispanic	57.1%	280
P.S. 1 Alfred E. Smith	Hispanic	37.3%	217
P.S. 102 Jacques Cartier	Hispanic	64%	236
P.S. 108 Assemblyman Angelo Del Toro Educational Complex	Hispanic	68.7%	364
P.S. 11 William T. Harris	White	41.4%	739
P.S. 110 Florence Nightingale	Hispanic	52.7%	264
P.S. 111 Adolph S. Ochs	Hispanic	56%	400
P.S. 112 Jose Celso Barbosa	Hispanic	72.8%	213
P.S. 115 Alexander Humboldt	Hispanic	92.6%	352
P.S. 116 Mary Lindley Murray	Hispanic	35.6%	362
P.S. 123 Mahalia Jackson	Hispanic	48.3%	393
P.S. 124 Yung Wing	Asian or Pacific Islander	86.2%	500
P.S. 125 Ralph Bunche	Hispanic	33.9%	251
P.S. 126 Jacob August Riis	Asian or Pacific Islander	54.7%	567
P.S. 128 Audubon	Hispanic	90.7%	443
P.S. 129 John H. Finley	Hispanic	49.5%	218
P.S. 130 Hernando De Soto	Asian or Pacific Islander	76.5%	574
P.S. 132 Juan Pablo Duarte	Hispanic	92.4%	172
P.S. 133 Fred R. Moore	Black	55.6%	187
P.S. 134 Henrietta Szold	Hispanic	61.2%	201
P.S. 138	Hispanic	62.9%	696
P.S. 140 Nathan Straus	Hispanic	79.6%	368
P.S. 142 Amalia Castro	Hispanic	77.2%	373
P.S. 145 Bloomingdale School	Hispanic	50.7%	487
P.S. 146 Ann M. Short	Hispanic	65.5%	325
P.S. 149 Sojourner Truth	Black	49%	259
P.S. 15 Roberto Clemente	Hispanic	56.8%	190
P.S. 150	White	40.7%	241
P.S. 152 Dyckman Valley	Hispanic	85.2%	465
P.S. 153 Adam Clayton Powell	Hispanic	72.6%	390
P.S. 154 Harriet Tubman	Black	68.1%	213
P.S. 155 William Paca	Hispanic	83.5%	254
P.S. 158 Bayard Taylor	White	67.4%	620
P.S. 161 Pedro Albizu Campos	Hispanic	79.6%	550
P.S. 163 Alfred E. Smith	Hispanic	64.7%	524
P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon	Hispanic	47.3%	427
P.S. 166 Richard Rogers School of the Arts & Science	White	54.5%	600
P.S. 169 Robert F. Kennedy	Hispanic	52.7%	353
P.S. 171 Patrick Henry	Hispanic	57.4%	772
P.S. 173	Hispanic	88%	566
P.S. 175 Henry H. Garnet	Black	49.6%	272
P.S. 18 Park Terrace	Hispanic	93.6%	220
P.S. 180 Hugo Newman	Black	47.1%	346
P.S. 183 Robert L. Stevenson	White	60.9%	534
P.S. 184 Shuang Wen	Asian or Pacific Islander	64.3%	734
P.S. 188 Island School	Hispanic	69%	458
P.S. 189	Hispanic	92.3%	439
P.S. 192 Jacob H. Schiff	Hispanic	89.7%	233
P.S. 194 Countee Cullen	Black	55.6%	144
P.S. 197 John B. Russwurm	Black	55.8%	199
P.S. 198 Isador E. Ida Straus	White	42.3%	515
P.S. 199 Jessie Isador Straus	White	50.8%	600
P.S. 2 Meyer London	Asian or Pacific Islander	49.8%	277
P.S. 20 Anna Silver	Hispanic	58.6%	379
P.S. 200 James Mccune Smith School	Black	59.9%	282
P.S. 206 Jose Celso Barbosa	Hispanic	74.4%	406
P.S. 212 Midtown West	Hispanic	47%	315
P.S. 226	Hispanic	50.9%	281
P.S. 234 Independence School	White	67.7%	489
P.S. 242 Young Diplomats Magnet Academy	Hispanic	60.9%	156
P.S. 28 Wright Brothers	Hispanic	80.6%	387
P.S. 290 Manhattan New School	White	60%	432
P.S. 3 Charrette School	White	60.1%	544
P.S. 30 Hernandez/Hughes	Black	49.4%	164
P.S. 33 Chelsea Prep	Hispanic	40.5%	627
P.S. 333 Manhattan School for Children	Hispanic	35.5%	473
P.S. 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt	Hispanic	56%	216
P.S. 35	Black	41.7%	230
P.S. 36 Margaret Douglas	Hispanic	59.6%	277
P.S. 38 Roberto Clemente	Hispanic	67.8%	230
P.S. 4 Duke Ellington	Hispanic	86.4%	450
P.S. 40 Augustus Saint-Gaudens	White	55.3%	537
P.S. 41 Greenwich Village	White	63.7%	476
P.S. 42 Benjamin Altman	Asian or Pacific Islander	70.9%	457
P.S. 452	White	39.1%	386
P.S. 46 Arthur Tappan	Hispanic	48.2%	371
P.S. 48 Po Michael J. Buczek	Hispanic	86%	372
P.S. 5 Ellen Lurie	Hispanic	90.4%	384
P.S. 51 Elias Howe	Hispanic	60.3%	468
P.S. 527 East Side School for Social Action	White	50.6%	389
P.S. 59 Beekman Hill International	White	59.4%	515
P.S. 6 Lillie D. Blake	White	63.5%	598
P.S. 64 Robert Simon	Hispanic	73.4%	188
P.S. 7 Samuel Stern	Hispanic	67.2%	402
P.S. 721 Manhattan Occupational Training Center	Hispanic	46%	176
P.S. 75 Emily Dickinson	Hispanic	55.8%	480
P.S. 76 A. Phillip Randolph	Black	59%	268
P.S. 77 Lower Lab School	Asian or Pacific Islander	43.1%	369
P.S. 79 Horan School	Hispanic	56.2%	217
P.S. 8 Luis Belliard	Hispanic	92.3%	337
P.S. 811 Mickey Mantle School	Hispanic	52.3%	512
P.S. 83 Luis Munoz Rivera	Hispanic	73.5%	339
P.S. 84 Lillian Weber	White	48.7%	669
P.S. 87 William Sherman	White	59.6%	726
P.S. 89	White	49.7%	330
P.S. 9 Sarah Anderson	White	61.6%	497
P.S. 92 Mary Mcleod Bethune	Black	55.3%	170
P.S. 94	Hispanic	44.1%	456
P.S. 96 Joseph Lanzetta	Hispanic	77.8%	423
P.S. 98 Shorac Kappock	Hispanic	89.5%	287
P.S./I.S. 187 Hudson Cliffs	Hispanic	47.3%	766
P.S./I.S. 210 21ST Century Academy	Hispanic	95%	423
P.S./I.S. 217 Roosevelt Island	Asian or Pacific Islander	35.3%	680
Pace High School	Hispanic	50.7%	533
Park East High School	Hispanic	59.6%	384
Paula Hedbavny School	Hispanic	81.7%	290
Peck Slip School	White	37.6%	354
Professional Performing Arts High School	White	37.8%	516
Professor Juan Bosch Public School	Hispanic	77.1%	245
Quest To Learn	Hispanic	48.7%	439
Renaissance School of the Arts	Hispanic	63.8%	149
Repertory Company High School for Theatre Arts	Hispanic	49.3%	215
Richard R. Green High School of Teaching	Hispanic	41.6%	365
River East Elementary	Hispanic	62.2%	246
River School	White	35.2%	511
Riverside School for Makers and Artists	Hispanic	64.1%	548
Satellite Academy High School	Hispanic	63.6%	118
School for Global Leaders	Hispanic	65%	180
School of the Future High School	White	41.5%	727
Seed Harlem	Black	47.3%	93
Sixth Avenue Elementary School	White	47.5%	322
Special Music School	White	40.8%	299
Spruce Street School	White	42.2%	450
Star Academy P.S. 63	Hispanic	68.6%	207
Stem Institute of Manhattan	Black	54.9%	133
Stephen T. Mather Building Arts and Craftmanship High School	Hispanic	66.8%	361
Stuyvesant High School	Asian or Pacific Islander	72%	3,257
Tag Young Scholars	Asian or Pacific Islander	46.8%	551
Talent Unlimited High School	Hispanic	54.9%	446
Teachers College Community School	Black	44.1%	322
Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School	Black	71.6%	148
Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning & Social Change	Black	63.1%	458
Tompkins Square Middle School	Hispanic	53%	328
Union Square Academy for Health Sciences	Hispanic	60.2%	482
Unity Center for Urban Technologies	Hispanic	64.4%	267
University Neighborhood High School	Hispanic	47.6%	481
University Neighborhood Middle School	Hispanic	67.1%	164
Urban Academy Laboratory High School	White	31.3%	128
Urban Assembly Academy for Future Leaders	Black	48.7%	78
Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law	Hispanic	48.8%	246
Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology	Hispanic	59.7%	417
Urban Assembly Maker Academy	Hispanic	48.5%	518
Urban Assembly New York Harbor School	Hispanic	39.2%	500
Urban Assembly School for Emergency Management	Hispanic	51.6%	285
Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce	Black	49.3%	148
Urban Assembly School for Green Careers	Hispanic	71.6%	317
Urban Assembly School for Media Studies	Hispanic	64.7%	312
Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts	Black	56.2%	219
Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women	Hispanic	48.7%	76
Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction	Hispanic	66.4%	226
Vanguard High School	Hispanic	59.1%	406
Wadleigh Perf and Visual Arts	Hispanic	52.7%	349
Washington Heights Academy	Hispanic	94.1%	477
Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School	Hispanic	91.3%	967
West End Secondary School	White	51.9%	717
West Prep Academy	Hispanic	49.7%	167
William Lynch School	Hispanic	50.6%	249
Yorkville Community School	White	45.6%	342
Yorkville East Middle School	White	52.4%	231
Young Women's Leadership School	Hispanic	54.5%	446