P.S. 171 Patrick Henry

Zoned continuation school with K-8 service. Zoned entry does not always translate into an open middle-school seat for late movers.

As a learning community, we believe strongly in providing our students with a student-centered, rigorous and challenging standards-aligned curricula to promote continuous academic achievement while addressing the social and emotional development of each child. We are the recipients of numerous awards for excellence on city and state assessments and our eighth grade students are accepted into prestigious specialized screened and private high schools. We offer our students Regents courses in Living Environment Science, Integrated Algebra Math and Spanish Proficiency for high school credit. Through grant funding, we have three state of the art Science labs, two computer labs, Verizon Coding Lab, Music Education Lab and Spanish Lab. Our students benefit from numerous partnerships throughout the city including Urban Advantage, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York Cares, Carmel Hill, BEAM, East Harlem Tutorial Program, City Year, Reading Partners, NYU Dentistry and Child Mind Institute. We have been featured in New York Times, Daily News, Uptowner, insideschools.org, GreatSchools.org and DNAInfo.com. Our Middle School was ranked in the top 7% of all schools in New York State and under ESSAs new accountability measures received Good Standing over consecutive years. In addition, PS/IS171 has been recognized as a two-time winner in 2018 and 2023 as Americas Best Urban School by The National Center for Urban School Transformation.

Source-reported description, not a current review or independent assessment. Programs may have changed.