These Are The 25 Best Elementary Schools In NYC: U.S. News

NEW YORK CITY — Special Music School on the Upper West Side is the best public elementary school in New York City, according to a new ranking Tuesday from U.S. News & World Report.

U.S. News researchers based the 2027 ranking of the nation’s best public elementary schools on the latest publicly available data from state education agencies by RTI International, alongside data from the U.S. Department of Education. In the past, the state reports weren’t part of the methodology.

The data from the state agencies provides a more comprehensive assessment of student performance in reading and mathematics across all proficiency levels while continuing to account for student background and absolute performance on state assessments.

“By incorporating direct state data across all proficiency levels, the 2027 rankings offer a richer, more complete picture of how elementary and middle schools are driving student growth,” Eric Brooks, U.S. News director of education data analysis, said in a news release.

Elementary schools are those offering either pre-K-5 or pre-K-6 education. For schools that have a wider grade span, only tests through fifth grade were considered. The report includes 46,000 public elementary schools ranked at the state and district levels. Charter schools are a stand-alone category.

The top 25 public elementary schools in New York City are:

1. Special Music School (Upper West Side)
2. Ps 77 Lower Lab School (Upper East Side)
3. New Explorations Into Science, Tech and Math High School (Lower East Side)
4. The Anderson School (Upper West Side)
5. Leaders of Excellence Advocacy and Discovery (Mott Haven)
6. The 30Th Avenue School (G & T Citywide) (Astoria)
7. Icahn Charter School 4 (Pelham Gardens)
8. Tag Young Scholars (East Harlem)
9. Success Academy Charter School (Hell's Kitchen)
10. Ps 196 Grand Central Parkway (Forest Hills)
11. Success Academy Charter School (Bushwick)
12. The Ps 35 Clove Valley School (Sunnyside, Staten Island)
13. Success Academy Charter School (Bensonhurst)
14. Ps 172 Beacon School of Excellence (Sunset Park)
15. Naples Street Elementary School (Emerson Hill, Staten Island)
16. Ps 150 (Financial District)
17. Success Academy Charter School - (Castle Hill, Bronx)
18. Success Academy Charter School (Harlem, 2)
19. Ps 5 Huguenot (Staten Island)
20. Success Academy Charter School (Upper West Side)
21. Ps 124 Yung Wing (Chinatown)
22. The Ps 166 Richard Rogers School of the Arts & Science (Upper West Side)
23. Success Academy Charter School (Cobble Hill)
24. Ps 8 Shirlee Solomon (Great Kills, Staten Island)