Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 8
PS 173, New York, NY
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 597
- Teachers (FTE)
- 45.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.3
- Grades
- PK to 8
This school's ratio is 1.9 higher than the district figure of 11.4. 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
- 306 Ft Washington Ave, New York, NY 10033
- Phone
- (212)927-7850
- County
- New York County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Large
- NCES school ID
- 360008302609
School meals
- Free lunch
- 520
- Reduced-price lunch
- 8
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 52888.4% 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 # 6
- Ps/Is 187 Hudson Cliffs 744 students
- Washington Heights Academy 463 students
- PS 152 Dyckman Valley 456 students
- PS 128 Audubon 441 students
- PS 4 Duke Ellington 428 students
- PS 5 Ellen Lurie 425 students
- PS 189 421 students
- Dos Puentes Elementary School 416 students
- Ps/Is 210 21st Century Academy 399 students
- Amistad Dual Language School 391 students
- PS 153 Adam Clayton Powell 387 students
- PS 28 Wright Brothers 378 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in New York
- 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
- Battery Park City School New York City Geographic District # 2
- 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 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.