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school overcrowding

Recent Headlines

Battery Park City

May 13, 2013

Parents Slam DOE Failure to Plan for Downtown Kindergarten Wait-Lists

More than 100 kids remain on the wait-lists for Downtown kindergartens.

TriBeCa

February 14, 2013

Popular Downtown Schools Face Kindergarten Lotteries Once Again

P.S. 234 and P.S. 276 will both have to hold lotteries for kindergarten this year.

Battery Park City

February 11, 2013

Downtown Families Face Space Crunch in Beloved Schools

Lower Manhattan's elementary schools are popular but overcrowded.

Upper West Side

February 11, 2013

Parents Turn to Magnet Schools to Escape Overcrowding

Some Upper West Side elementary schools are overcrowded, while magnet schools offer an alternative.

Park Slope

February 11, 2013

Park Slope Rezoning Shifts School Landscape

The neighborhood is getting a new K-5 school in the fall of 2013 to ease the space crunch.

Sunnyside

January 31, 2013

Construction Starts on New Sunnyside Elementary School

Officials broke ground on P.S. 313, saying the new school will help overcrowding in Queens District 24.

Woodside

January 04, 2013

Woodside School Will Get Annex to Replace Longtime Trailer Classrooms

The city will build an addition at crowded P.S. 11, which has used portable classrooms for over a decade.

Sunnyside

December 12, 2012

New Sunnyside School Will Have Rooftop Play Space

Designs for the future P.S. 313 were presented at a Community Board 2 meeting.

Woodside

December 07, 2012

Planned Woodside School Raises Traffic Concerns

Some Woodside residents worry that P.S. 339, slated to open on 57th Street will aggravate traffic.

Battery Park City

November 29, 2012

P.S. 276 Parents Worry Overcrowding Will Cost Students Art, Science Rooms

Parents at the Battery Park City school want to limit the number of kindergarten classes next fall.

Greenwich Village

November 19, 2012

P.S. 41 Principal Strives for Excellence Despite Overcrowding

Principal Kelly Shannon says passing the DOE's latest rezoning proposal is among her top priorities.

Woodside

November 15, 2012

Hundreds of New School Seats Planned for 'Epicenter of Overcrowding'

The city plans to add nearly 500 seats to P.S. 339 and add an annex to P.S. 11 to seat hundreds more.

Astoria

October 25, 2012

Overcrowded P.S. 70 Getting 500 New Seats And Gym

Elected officials broke ground for the new addition to P.S. 70 in Astoria.

Upper East Side

October 05, 2012

DOE Glitch Sends Students from Under-Enrolled School to Overcrowded Ones

A mistake sent students slated for the under-enrolled P.S. 267 to other schools instead.

New York City

September 25, 2012

Thousands of City Classes Are Overcrowded, Union Says

A total of 670 schools have overcrowded classes this fall, the United Federation of Teachers said.