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Enrollment
822
Elementary
DISTRICT 555 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11·NCES 360008802397
PS 106 PARKCHESTER
1514 OLMSTEAD AVE, BRONX, NY 10462 · (718) 892-1006 · Bronx County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL822 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
12.4:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
720 students
DISTRICT 87% · 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 | 107 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 121 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 102 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 127 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 128 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 124 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (121) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (124).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
54.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 54.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
45.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 106 PARKCHESTER
PS 106 PARKCHESTER's state test result (45.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 106 PARKCHESTER this school | 822 | 87.6% | 45.2% |
| PS 124 OSMOND A CHURCH SOUTH OZONE PARK | 1,008 | 84.5% | 53.1% |
| BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE BRONX | 790 | 91.1% | 89.8% |
| PS 62 CHESTER PARK SCHOOL SOUTH RICHMOND HILL | 827 | 83.7% | 50.8% |
| PS 35 NATHANIEL WOODHULL HOLLIS | 626 | 81.9% | 51.6% |
| BELLAIRE SCHOOL (THE) QUEENS VILLAGE | 699 | 75.8% | 43.5% |
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 106 PARKCHESTER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #1,379 of 2,335 | #94 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,274 of 2,342 ▲ 137 | #91 of 212 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,241 of 2,343 ▲ 22 | #99 of 212 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 822 | #128 of 2,585 | #12 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #1,425 of 2,338 | #117 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.6% | #385 of 2,388 | #5 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.6% | #516 of 2,534 | #172 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.8% | #439 of 1,757 | #105 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
822
-150 (-15%) vs 2020
-33% since 2010-11, when it was 1,232
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 822 | 66.1 | 12.4:1 | 88% (720) |
| 2023-24 | 851 | 70.4 | 12.1:1 | 85% (725) |
| 2022-23 | 889 | 64.3 | 13.8:1 | 79% (706) |
| 2020-21 | 972 | 75 | 13.0:1 | 78% (761) |
| 2017-18 | 1,093 | 69 | 15.8:1 | 74% (808) |
| 2015-16 | 1,172 | 74 | 15.8:1 | 61% (718) |
| 2010-11 | 1,232 | 82 | 15.0:1 | 87% (1,074) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 106 PARKCHESTER.
About PS 106 PARKCHESTER
PS 106 PARKCHESTER is the name of a large elementary school in BRONX, New York. Enrolled students number 822 students, in pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 86% higher than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
PS 106 PARKCHESTER is one school in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11, a system of 62 schools with 30,138 students.
PS 106 PARKCHESTER has no majority group; Asian students are the largest, at 46%. Other students are 28% Hispanic and 22% Black. By comparison, Bronx County residents are about 4% Asian. The school's diversity index is 67%, meaning two students picked at random have a 67% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at the school number 66.1 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.4:1. That is close to the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school's lunch program data list 88% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in Bronx County average 90%.
PS 106 PARKCHESTER is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 50% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For PS 106 PARKCHESTER, the prediction is 42.8% and the result is 45.2%.
County data help place the school in context: in Bronx County, the median household income is $48,676, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bronx County is home to 472 public schools and about 202,028 public school students.
Nearest public school: JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE), about 0.1 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 56.3% on proficiency, and PS 106 PARKCHESTER is below that at 45.2%.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
PS 106 PARKCHESTER's enrollment dropped from 972 in 2020-21 to 822 in 2024-25.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11
- HARRY S TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,650 students
- PS 83 DONALD HERTZElementary · 1,451 students
- PS 89Elementary · 1,169 students
- PS/MS 194Elementary · 1,169 students
- PS 96 RICHARD RODGERSElementary · 880 students
- JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)Middle · 778 students
Other schools in BRONX
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- 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
- JHS 127 CASTLE HILL (THE)0.1 mi · 778
- LINDEN TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 300
- BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE0.3 mi · 790
- PS/MS 1940.5 mi · 1,169
- ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 20.6 mi · 342
- PS/MS 498 VAN NEST ACADEMY0.6 mi · 603
Frequently asked questions
About PS 106 PARKCHESTERHow large is PS 106 PARKCHESTER?
PS 106 PARKCHESTER enrolls approximately 822 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PS 106 PARKCHESTER serve?
PS 106 PARKCHESTER serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PS 106 PARKCHESTER have?
PS 106 PARKCHESTER employs 66 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.4:1.
How diverse is PS 106 PARKCHESTER?
PS 106 PARKCHESTER reports a student body of 2% White, 28% Hispanic, 22% Black, 46% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PS 106 PARKCHESTER?
PS 106 PARKCHESTER is overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #11 in Bronx County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.