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What's the most underrated thing about PS 100 ISAAC CLASON that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
412
Elementary
DISTRICT 493 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8·NCES 360008502380
PS 100 ISAAC CLASON
800 TAYLOR AVE, BRONX, NY 10473 · (718) 842-1461 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL412 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
380 students
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 49 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
38.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 30.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PS 100 ISAAC CLASON
PS 100 ISAAC CLASON's state test result (30.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 100 ISAAC CLASON this school | 412 | 92.2% | 30.8% |
| BRONX ARTS AND SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 428 | 90.7% | 41.1% |
| MOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 442 | 93.4% | 44.6% |
| PS 257 JOHN F HYLAN BROOKLYN | 431 | 92.3% | 51.5% |
| BOLD CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 428 | 88.8% | 70.8% |
| SHERIDAN ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LEADERS BRONX | 410 | 96.8% | 30.4% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PS 100 ISAAC CLASON ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #1,990 of 2,335 | #165 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,793 of 2,342 ▲ 202 | #146 of 212 ▲ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,869 of 2,343 ▼ 35 | #168 of 212 ▼ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 412 | #1,295 of 2,585 | #111 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #1,243 of 2,338 | #100 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.5% | #1,516 of 2,388 | #132 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.2% | #328 of 2,534 | #135 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.5% | #322 of 1,757 | #89 of 153 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
412
-112 (-21%) vs 2020
-40% since 2010-11, when it was 690
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 13.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 412 | 34.5 | 11.9:1 | 92% (380) |
| 2023-24 | 441 | 37.8 | 11.7:1 | 94% (416) |
| 2022-23 | 446 | 42.3 | 10.6:1 | 92% (410) |
| 2020-21 | 524 | 39 | 13.4:1 | 86% (449) |
| 2017-18 | 576 | 45 | 12.8:1 | 82% (473) |
| 2015-16 | 604 | 43 | 14.1:1 | 74% (448) |
| 2010-11 | 690 | 53 | 13.0:1 | 89% (612) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 100 ISAAC CLASON.
About PS 100 ISAAC CLASON
PS 100 ISAAC CLASON, located in BRONX, New York, is a mid-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 412 students in pre-K through 5.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8 counts 52 schools and 21,621 students, including PS 100 ISAAC CLASON.
About 72% of the student body at PS 100 ISAAC CLASON is Hispanic. Other students are 23% Black and 3% Asian. Among all residents of Bronx County, the Hispanic share is about 55%. A diversity index of 42% means there is a 42% chance two randomly chosen students at PS 100 ISAAC CLASON are from different groups.
On staff are 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.9:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. About 92% of students at PS 100 ISAAC CLASON are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Bronx County is close, at 90%.
Among New York public elementary schools, PS 100 ISAAC CLASON outscored 21%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, PS 100 ISAAC CLASON's results are 10.3 points below predicted: 30.8% against 41.1%.
For the population of Bronx County, the median household earns about $48,676 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 23%. PS 100 ISAAC CLASON shares Bronx County with 471 other public schools.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX 4 is the nearest public school to PS 100 ISAAC CLASON, about 0.2 miles away. PS 100 ISAAC CLASON is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. PS 100 ISAAC CLASON comes in 8th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 21%. By 2024-25, the school had 11.9 students per teacher, compared with 13.4 in 2020-21.
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Bronx County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,404,779
Census ACS
Median income
$48,676
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
472
202,028 students
Quick facts
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- KIPP BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL IIICombined · 2,390 students
- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- ATMOSPHERE ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 1,481 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
Nearby schools
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX 40.2 mi · 590
- JHS 131 ALBERT EINSTEIN0.2 mi · 322
- SOUNDVIEW ACADEMY FOR CULTURE AND SCHOLARSHIP0.2 mi · 240
- GRAND CONCOURSE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 698
- GOTHAM COLLABORATIVE HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 295
- BRONX COMPASS HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 406
Frequently asked questions
About PS 100 ISAAC CLASONHow large is PS 100 ISAAC CLASON?
PS 100 ISAAC CLASON enrolls approximately 412 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 100 ISAAC CLASON serve?
PS 100 ISAAC CLASON serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 100 ISAAC CLASON?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 100 ISAAC CLASON is approximately 11.9:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PS 100 ISAAC CLASON?
Student demographics at PS 100 ISAAC CLASON are roughly 0% White, 72% Hispanic, 23% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 100 ISAAC CLASON?
PS 100 ISAAC CLASON is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8 in Bronx County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.