New York City has 1,003,629 students in its public school system. These students go to 2,190 schools. 1,907 of these schools are managed by the Department of Education and 283 are run by charter schools. There are 13,054 capital projects planned for these schools by the School Construction Authority with a projected cost of $15.9 billion. That’s well over $15,000 of capital projects per student.
These numbers are all calculated from NYC’s Open Data. They’re a small part of Databook’s new Schools section, which combines 12 NYC open datasets from Department of Education, School Construction Authority and Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to create two new Databook experiences: school profiles and school districts.
School profiles offer enrollment, attendance, demographic, capacity, health violation and construction project information for each of NYC’s over 2,000 K-12 public and charter schools. Our profiles also display 6 unique ID numbers for each school related to different government agencies: DBN (Department of Education), Building Code (School Construction Authority), BBL (Department of Buildings), BEDS ID (NY State Education Department), Facility Name (Department of City Planning) and Campus Name (NYPD). You can use these IDs to find more information about a school from these various agencies.
Each school profile links out the schools information on DOE’s official School Profiles at schools.nyc.gov and to the school’s profile on TheCity’s School Mental Health Project. They also link out to our new school district profiles in the Databook’s District tool.
The School District Profile shows all the schools in a district, the SCA’s capital projects in that district as well as past and future enrollment in the district by grade. We also offer a few district related stats such as the number of schools, number of students, number of capital projects, project budgets and project cost per student in each district.
We hope you find these new features useful and, as always, please don’t hesitate to contact us with feedback, ideas and questions.