PS 185 John M. Langston is a public elementary school in New York City. It is designated an Empowerment School by the New York City Department of Education. The schools serves Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, and Special Education (SE).[1] They offer a Gifted and Talented program and a Dual Language program.
The school is named after John Mercer Langston, an American abolitionist and the first African-American U.S. Congressman elected from Virginia.