Public school / Primary
Ps 186 Castlewood
Bellerose, New York
- NCES ID
- 360009902642
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ps 186 Castlewood is a public primary school in Bellerose, New York, run by New York City Geographic District #26. It enrols 333 students — the 60909th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
333
Teachers
54.0
Students per teacher
6.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
38.1%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within New York City Geographic District #26
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Francis Lewis High School4,265 students
- 2Benjamin N Cardozo High School3,100 students
- 3Bayside High School3,011 students
- 4Jhs 216 George J Ryan1,476 students
- 5Martin Van Buren High School1,068 students
- 6Jhs 74 Nathaniel Hawthorne1,008 students
- 7Ps 173 Fresh Meadows929 students
- 8Jhs 67 Louis Pasteur926 students
- Enrollment−26.5%
- Teachers+45.9%
- Students per teacher−46.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−34.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory