PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS

Set in BRONX, New York, PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS is a modestly sized elementary-level community, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8. It teaches 302 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.

PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS is one of 52 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 8, a district that instructs 21,621 students overall.

On demographics, PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 30% Black, 4% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.9%, the actual is 40.0%, a residual of +0.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,676 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Bronx County runs 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), of which PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS is one.

VIRTUAL INNOVATOR'S ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 41.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. PS 146 EDWARD COLLINS's enrollment has edged down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 405 (now 302). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 43% to 30% over that span.

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