Public school / Primary
Ps 199 Jessie Isador Straus
New York, New York
- NCES ID
- 360007802677
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ps 199 Jessie Isador Straus is a public primary school in New York, New York, run by New York City Geographic District # 3. It enrols 538 students — the 32869th 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
538
Teachers
39.0
Students per teacher
13.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
15.6%
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 # 3
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.
- 1Fiorello H Laguardia High School2,381 students
- 2Beacon High School1,449 students
- 3Jhs 54 Booker T Washington724 students
- 4West End Secondary School703 students
- 5Ps 87 William Sherman667 students
- 6Ps 166 Richard Rogers School of the Arts & Science (the)593 students
- 7Ps 84 Lillian Weber587 students
- 8Ps 199 Jessie Isador Straus538 students
- Enrollment+18.8%
- Teachers+5.4%
- Students per teacher+20.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−73.2%
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