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NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS - STUDENT AND EDUCATOR REPORT [2020 - 21]

The Student and Educator Report provides information to the public about students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch; student attendance and suspensions; and school/district average class size, staff counts, and teacher attendance and turnover.

Due to COVID-19 and changes to the reporting of student and educator data requirements, data are as reported by schools and districts to the Department through the Student Information Repository System (SIRS) and should not be used to make comparisons across years or between schools, districts, or regions, as pandemic impact varied greatly.

Glossary of Terms

STUDENT DATA

FREE AND REDUCED-PRICE LUNCH (2020-21)

Due to the pandemic related nationwide federal waivers to provide free school meals to all children during the 2020-2021 school year, schools were not required to collect or report student free and reduced price lunch eligibility. Therefore, these data may not accurately reflect actual counts of free and reduced price lunch eligibility or participation.

Eligible for Free Lunch Eligible for Reduced-Price Lunch
Number Percent Number Percent
729,148 72% 34,558 3%

*Families First Coronavirus Response Act (P.L. 116-127) Section 2202(a) (2020), as amended.

AVERAGE CLASS SIZE (2020-21)
Class Description Average Class Size
Kindergarten 9
Grade 1 10
Grade 2 10
Language Arts (grade 3) 8
Language Arts (grade 4) 8
Language Arts (grade 5) 8
Language Arts (grade 6) 11
Language Arts (grade 7) 12
Language Arts (grade 8) 12
Mathematics (grade 3) 8
Mathematics (grade 4) 8
Mathematics (grade 5) 8
Mathematics (grade 6) 12
Mathematics (grade 7) 13
Mathematics (grade 8) 12
Science (grade 4) 9
Science (grade 8) 13
English/Language Arts III (Common Core) 14
Algebra I (Common Core) 12
Geometry (Common Core) 15
Algebra II (Common Core) 19
Earth Science 15
Biology 14
Chemistry 18
Physics 19
U.S. History-Comprehensive 14
World History and Geography (New Framework) 14

STUDENT ATTENDANCE RATE (2020-21)

N/A

EDUCATOR DATA

TEACHER ATTENDANCE RATE (2020-21)

N/A

TEACHER TURNOVER (2019-20) TO (2020-21)
Turnover Rate Of Teachers With Fewer Than Five Years Of Experience Turnover Rate Of All Teachers
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