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Public school / Primary

Ps 268 Emma Lazarus

Brooklyn, New York

NCES ID
360009602782
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Ps 268 Emma Lazarus is a public primary school in Brooklyn, New York, run by New York City Geographic District #18. It enrols 236 students — the 73972nd largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.

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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

236students

73972nd nationally, tied with 132

Teachers

22.0FTE

60182nd nationally, tied with 2,404

Students per teacher

10.7students

12294th nationally, tied with 529

Free or reduced-price lunch

89.8%percent

13912th nationally, tied with 104

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.

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Within New York City Geographic District #18

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Ps 235 Janice Marie Knight School952 students
  2. 2Ps 115 Daniel Mucatel School737 students
  3. 3Ps 66568 students
  4. 4Is 285 Meyer Levin552 students
  5. 5Ps 276 Louis Marshall522 students
  6. 6High School for Medical Professions390 students
  7. 7Academy for Conservation and the Environment383 students
  8. 8Ps 114 Ryder Elementary364 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: New York median across 4,847 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−47.9%
  • Teachers−40.5%
  • Students per teacher−7.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+54.0%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.