GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a tight-knit K-5 school in BRONX, New York, GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL teaches 353 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9. That puts it 20% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9 runs 70 schools in total, collectively educating 23,786 students. GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 22% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.4%; this one delivers 33.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bronx County) records that median household income runs about $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BRONX EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING 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. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 20%: 439 students in 2018 compared to 353 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 27% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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