2026–27

First day of school: Thursday, September 10, 2026 — NYC Public Schools calendar

P.S. 036 Margaret Douglas DBN 05M036 · District 5 · Manhattan
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Public School 036 Morningside Heights · Community School District 5

123 Morningside Drive, Manhattan Margaret
Douglas

A zoned neighbourhood elementary school for 3-K, Pre-K and Kindergarten through Grade 5, serving about 276 students in Harlem.

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§01Record card

School record card

  • Address
    123 Morningside Drive
    Manhattan, NY 10027
    The Community School District 5 office lists the same address.
  • Main office 212-690-5807 Fax 212-690-5811
  • Grades 3-K, Pre-K, K–5 Listed on the official profile as PK, 0K, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05 and SE.
  • Enrollment 276 students InsideSchools, from the 2024–25 Demographic Snapshot.
  • District Geographic District 5 Borough: Manhattan. Superintendent: Sean Davenport.
  • Admissions Zoned · MySchools A zoned, neighbourhood school. All applications run through MySchools.nyc.
  • Building Partially Accessible Rated 3 out of 10 by the DOE Building Accessibility Profile. Shares building with other schools.
  • School number M036 · DBN 05M036 Official NYC Public Schools profile

§02The school

A small zoned school on Morningside Drive

P.S. 036 Margaret Douglas is a zoned, neighbourhood elementary school in Community School District 5, Manhattan. It enrols about 276 children across 3-K, Pre-K, Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 5, and shares its building with other schools at 123 Morningside Drive.

Grades served
3-K, Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grades 1–5 Published on the official profile as the grade codes PK, 0K, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05 and SE.
Admissions
Zoned neighbourhood school InsideSchools records the published zone as the 2019–20 zone and advises families to call the school to confirm. Applications run through MySchools.nyc.
Space
Shares building with other schools As recorded on the official profile. The Community School District 5 office is listed at the same address.
Community school
Yes — partner contact Chabeli Menendez Listed under Mental Health and Wellness on the official profile, alongside a school-based mental health clinic run by NY Foundling.
Plan for the year
Comprehensive Educational Plan 2025–26 Published as a PDF on the school’s official profile.
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Where these facts come from

Every statement on this page is taken from the school’s official New York City Public Schools profile, from the citywide school-year calendar, or from InsideSchools. Where a detail is not published by any of them, this page says so instead of filling the gap.

§03Calendar

Dates that apply to a Pre-K–5 school

Drawn from the citywide NYC Public Schools calendar and filtered to the entries that affect elementary schools and Pre-K Centers. Citywide dates only — the school has not published a calendar of its own.

See the full 2026–27 calendar

  1. Thu 10 Sep 2026 First day of school“The new school year starts on Thursday, September 10, 2026.”
  2. Mon 21 Sep 2026 Yom Kippur, schools closed
  3. Wed 30 Sep 2026 Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for elementary schools and Pre-K Centers
  4. Mon 12 Oct 2026 Italian Heritage / Indigenous Peoples’ Day, schools closed
  5. Tue 3 Nov 2026 Election Day — school will be in session remotely for all students
  6. Thu 5 Nov 2026 Afternoon and Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for elementary schools and Pre-K CentersStudents in these schools are dismissed three hours early.
  7. Wed 11 Nov 2026 Veterans Day, schools closed

§04The day

Meals

“Breakfast, lunch and after school meal service is free for all NYC public school students.”

Arrival and dismissal times are not published

Neither the official school profile nor InsideSchools lists a bell schedule for P.S. 036. The times above are meal-service windows only. Call the main office on 212-690-5807 to confirm arrival and dismissal for your child’s grade.

Support and access

  • Mental health and wellness

    School-based mental health clinic

    Run at the school by NY Foundling, 212-660-1365. The official profile advises: “Ask your Parent Coordinator, School Social Worker, or School Counselor for more information about your school’s mental health program.”

  • Community school

    Chabeli Menendez

    Community school partner contact, 646-577-0845.

  • Building accessibility

    Partially Accessible — rated 3 out of 10

    “There is general ground floor access, and at least one accessible bathroom and one accessible classroom exist on the ground floor. Certain classrooms or public assembly spaces on the ground floor may still not be accessible due to changes in elevation.”

  • Respect for All

    Reporting bullying and harassment

    The school’s Respect for All and Sexual Harassment Prevention liaison is Allison Mathurin. How to report bullying.

  • Around the clock

    NYC 988

    Free, confidential, 24/7 support. Talk or text 988, or use chat.988lifeline.org.

§05The public record

Everything this school has published, in one index

P.S. 036 has no website of its own. What it does have is a paper trail: plans, reviews, surveys and budgets filed with the Department of Education, each of them public. They are usually buried behind accordion panels. Here they are as a plain index — and, beside it, an honest register of what simply is not on the record.

On record

17 documents
  1. Plans
  2. Comprehensive Educational Plan 2025–26 The school’s own goals and strategies for the current year. PDF.
  3. School Counseling Plan How counselling is organised at M036. PDF.
  4. Reviews and results
  5. School Quality Snapshot — Elementary A summary of the learning environment and student performance.
  6. School Performance Dashboard — Elementary Multiple years of data and comparisons for this school.
  7. Quality Review Report, 2016–17 A two-day visit by an experienced educator. PDF. Most recent published review.
  8. Quality Review Report, 2014–15 PDF.
  9. Annual Arts Report Which art forms are available at this school.
  10. The building
  11. Building Accessibility Profile — M036 The full report behind the “Partially Accessible, 3 out of 10” rating.
  12. Room assessment and ventilation status Building-condition monitoring for 123 Morningside Drive.
  13. Principal Annual Space Survey How the building’s rooms are allocated.
  14. Building Condition Assessment Survey School Construction Authority condition record.
  15. Water testing and environmental reports Citywide report library, filtered by building.
  16. Department of Health kitchen inspection reports Inspection history for the school’s food service.
  17. Money
  18. Budget At A Glance, FY 2026 What the school is funded to spend this year.
  19. Fair Student Funding detail How the per-student allocation is calculated.
  20. Galaxy allocation Line-item allocation record.
  21. Budget summary Table of organisation and budget summary.

All seventeen destinations are the URLs published on the school’s official NYC Public Schools profile. Several open PDFs or third-party report tools.

Not on record

Ask the office
  • A bell schedule No arrival or dismissal time is published anywhere. Call 212-690-5807.
  • A mission or vision statement None published. Nothing has been written here in the school’s voice on its behalf.
  • Programs, clubs and after-school Not listed. The Annual Arts Report is the only published record of programming.
  • A parent association No PTA contact is published. Ask the Parent Coordinator, Jessica Gonzalez.
  • School news and events None published. The citywide calendar in §03 is the only dated information available.
  • Supply lists and uniform policy Not published. Call the main office.
  • Photographs of the school None published. Every image area on this page is an empty, labelled placeholder.
Why this section exists

A concept homepage is easy to fill with invented warmth. This one lists what is genuinely on the public record, and names the gaps that only the school itself can close.

§06Getting here

123 Morningside Drive

Morningside Heights, Manhattan — the north-east corner of Community School District 5. InsideSchools lists five subway lines and eleven bus routes within reach of the school.

Subway — to 125th St

  • Subway line 1
  • Subway line A
  • Subway line B
  • Subway line C
  • Subway line D

Buses

  • Bx15
  • M2
  • M3
  • M4
  • M5
  • M10
  • M11
  • M100
  • M104
  • M116
  • M60-SBS

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Who else is at this address

  • The official profile records that P.S. 036 shares its building with other schools.
  • The Community School District 5 office is listed at the same address, 212-222-1395.
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Neighbourhood
Morningside HeightsInsideSchools records the location as Morningside Heights, District 5, and describes the school as being in Harlem.
Accessibility
Partially AccessibleGeneral ground-floor access; rated 3 out of 10.

§07Directory

Who to ask

Only the roles the Department of Education publishes on the school’s official profile as family contact routes.

District 5 — same address