PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE

PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE is a small elementary campus in SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29. The school instructs 283 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 46 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 (21,817 students total), PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE logs that the largest single group is Black, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 6% Native American. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.9%, the actual is 65.0%, a residual of +16.2 points.

In the area at large, Queens County reports that median household income runs about $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Queens County's 392 public schools (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students), PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 283 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 88% to 77% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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