Public school / Primary
Ps 45 Clarence Witherspoon
South Ozone Park, New York
- NCES ID
- 360012302198
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ps 45 Clarence Witherspoon is a public primary school in South Ozone Park, New York, run by New York City Geographic District #27. It enrols 275 students — the 69019th 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
275
Teachers
18.0
Students per teacher
15.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
82.2%
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 #27
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.
- 1John Adams High School2,366 students
- 2Ms 137 America'S School of Heroes1,670 students
- 3Richmond Hill High School1,637 students
- 4Jhs 210 Elizabeth Blackwell1,472 students
- 5Channel View School for Research1,219 students
- 6Scholars' Academy1,183 students
- 7Ps 108 Captain Vincent G Fowler1,106 students
- 8High School-Construction Trades Engineering & Architecture1,075 students
- Enrollment−39.3%
- Teachers−51.4%
- Students per teacher+33.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+41.0%
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