Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 8
PS 126 Jacob August Riis, New York, NY
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 575
- Teachers (FTE)
- 48.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.0
- Grades
- PK to 8
This school's ratio is 0.8 lower than the district figure of 12.8. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 80 Catherine St, New York, NY 10038
- Phone
- (212)962-2188
- County
- New York County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Large
- NCES school ID
- 360007702468
School meals
- Free lunch
- 405
- Reduced-price lunch
- 27
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 43275.1% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in New York City Geographic District # 2
- Battery Park City School 797 students
- Ps/Is 217 Roosevelt Island 689 students
- PS 11 Sarah J Garnett Elementary School (The) 662 students
- PS 6 Lillie D Blake 655 students
- PS 33 Chelsea Prep 606 students
- PS 158 Bayard Taylor 605 students
- PS 3 Charrette School 563 students
- PS 40 Augustus Saint-Gaudens 538 students
- PS 59 Beekman Hill International 531 students
- PS 130 Hernando de Soto 526 students
- PS 198 Isador E Ida Straus 516 students
- River School (The) 499 students
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- Equity Project Charter School (The) Equity Project Charter School (The)
- Success Academy Charter School-Upper West Success Academy Charter School-Upper West
- Success Academy Charter School-Union Square Success Academy Charter School-Union Square
- Zeta Charter School - Inwood Zeta Charter School - Inwood
- KIPP NYC Washington Heights Academy Charter School KIPP NYC Washington Heights Academy Charter School
- PS 184 Shuang Wen New York City Geographic District # 1
- PS 87 William Sherman New York City Geographic District # 3
- KIPP Star College Prep Charter School KIPP Star College Prep Charter School
- Ps/Is 187 Hudson Cliffs New York City Geographic District # 6
- PS 171 Patrick Henry New York City Geographic District # 4
- Success Academy Charter School-Harlem 5 Success Academy Charter School-Harlem 5
- PS 84 Lillian Weber New York City Geographic District # 3
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.