CASTLE BRIDGE SCHOOL

CASTLE BRIDGE SCHOOL operates as a compact primary school in NEW YORK, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6. Current enrollment sits at 195 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 56% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 6 comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 17,415 students; CASTLE BRIDGE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, CASTLE BRIDGE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 16% White, 8% Black, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, CASTLE BRIDGE SCHOOL logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CASTLE BRIDGE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.2%, the actual is 57.4%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for New York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. CASTLE BRIDGE SCHOOL is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

The closest other public school is PS 128 AUDUBON, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CASTLE BRIDGE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CASTLE BRIDGE SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 45.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 228 students in 2018 compared to 195 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 66% to 71% over that span.

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