AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD

As a tight-knit elementary-level community in BRONX, New York, AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD instructs 305 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD is one of 83 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, a district that caters to 40,459 students overall.

On demographics, AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Black, 12% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Bronx County's rate of about 90%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Bronx County shows median household earnings sit near $48,676, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD is one.

PS 95 SHEILA MENCHER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 305). White enrollment moved from 17% to 12% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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