BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE)

BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE) is an elementary school of close-knit scale in NEW YORK, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4, teacheing 291 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4 comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 11,316 students; BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE) is among them.

On demographics, BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE) records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). The remainder looks like 3% Black, 2% White. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE) has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 50.8%, a residual of +10.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for New York County indicate median household income runs about $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE) is one campus in the mix.

PS 83 LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE). On composite proficiency, BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE) comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE) has declined 7%, going from 312 students in 2018 to 291 in 2025.

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