PS 109 SEDGWICK

PS 109 SEDGWICK operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in BRONX, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9. Current enrollment sits at 430 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

PS 109 SEDGWICK is one of 70 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 9, a district that serves 23,786 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 109 SEDGWICK logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%; the rest looks like 22% Black. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 95% of students at PS 109 SEDGWICK qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, PS 109 SEDGWICK is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.9%; PS 109 SEDGWICK posts 20.1%, -19.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Bronx County shows median household income runs about $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), PS 109 SEDGWICK is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: IS 229 ROLAND PATTERSON, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 109 SEDGWICK at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 43.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 109 SEDGWICK has ticked down 35%, going from 663 students in 2018 to 430 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 83% to 76%.

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