PS 75 EMILY DICKINSON vs PS 92 MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE

PS 75 Emily Dickinson and PS 92 Mary McLeod Bethune are both highly rated elementary schools in New York, but PS 92 Mary McLeod Bethune holds a significant edge in state rank — #5 of 4,739 schools in New York versus PS 75 Emily Dickinson's #24 — despite the two schools sitting just 0.2 points apart in overall rating (9.4 vs. 9.2). That rank gap is meaningful: placing in the top five statewide out of nearly 4,800 schools puts PS 92 Mary McLeod Bethune in rare company, even as both schools rank well inside the top 1% of New York schools.

Academically, PS 92 Mary McLeod Bethune scores 8.8/10 versus PS 75 Emily Dickinson's 8.5/10 — a 0.3-point delta that aligns with the statewide rank gap. On growth, PS 92 Mary McLeod Bethune scores a perfect 10.0/10 against PS 75 Emily Dickinson's already strong 9.8/10, indicating that PS 92 students are advancing at a slightly faster rate relative to academic peers statewide. For families who weight year-over-year student progress heavily, PS 92 Mary McLeod Bethune's growth ceiling is as high as the data allows.

The two schools diverge sharply on size and economic profile. PS 75 Emily Dickinson enrolls 480 students with a student-teacher ratio of 6.6:1 — among the most favorable ratios available at the elementary level — while PS 92 Mary McLeod Bethune serves 170 students at an 11.3:1 ratio. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility tells a starker story: 98% at PS 92 Mary McLeod Bethune versus 69% at PS 75 Emily Dickinson. PS 92 Mary McLeod Bethune's top-five statewide rank while serving a nearly fully economically disadvantaged population is a standout equity result.

On grade span, PS 92 Mary McLeod Bethune adds a pre-kindergarten program (PK–05) that PS 75 Emily Dickinson does not offer (KG–05), giving families with younger children a potential entry point one year earlier and allowing for continuity through fifth grade from the start.