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What's one thing PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
372
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10·NCES 360008701748
PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING
2195 ANDREWS AVE, BRONX, NY 10453 · (718) 563-0473 · Bronx County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL372 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 62% of New York public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
9.8:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
330 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 25 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 31 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 17% |
| Grade 7 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 56 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (25) is 55% smaller than its 8th grade class (56).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
51.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
60.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 55.0% |
% 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
51.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING
PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING's state test result (51.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING this school | 372 | 88.7% | 51.0% |
| PS/IS 157 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HEATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY (THE) BROOKLYN | 377 | 87.8% | 32.6% |
| PS 106 EDWARD EVERETT HALE BROOKLYN | 327 | 90.5% | 23.6% |
| PS 8 LUIS BELLIARD NEW YORK | 354 | 92.9% | 31.3% |
| PS/IS 210 21ST CENTURY ACADEMY NEW YORK | 399 | 90.2% | 53.1% |
| BRILLA PAX CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 325 | 88.0% | 54.9% |
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 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Bronx County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,122 of 2,335 | #72 of 212 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #1,055 of 2,342 ▲ 46 | #76 of 212 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,282 of 2,343 ▼ 142 | #102 of 212 ▼ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 372 | #1,535 of 2,585 | #130 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #386 of 2,338 | #24 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.8% | #2,149 of 2,388 | #204 of 205 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.7% | #471 of 2,534 | #163 of 220 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.1% | #511 of 1,757 | #112 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
372
-90 (-19%) vs 2020
-35% since 2010-11, when it was 576
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 372 | 37.8 | 9.8:1 | 89% (330) |
| 2023-24 | 393 | 40.8 | 9.6:1 | 86% (337) |
| 2022-23 | 410 | 40.3 | 10.2:1 | 83% (342) |
| 2020-21 | 462 | 40 | 11.6:1 | 81% (373) |
| 2017-18 | 484 | 33 | 14.7:1 | 79% (381) |
| 2015-16 | 497 | 29 | 17.1:1 | 70% (347) |
| 2010-11 | 576 | 36 | 16.0:1 | 97% (557) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING.
About PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING
PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING is a low-enrollment elementary school in New York, located in BRONX. Students in kindergarten through 8 attend, and enrollment is 372 students.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 has a total of 83 schools and 40,459 students, PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING among them.
Federal enrollment data show PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING is 90% Hispanic. Other groups make up 8% Black. Bronx County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The school's diversity index is 18%, meaning two students picked at random have an 18% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
With 37.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING was 9.8:1. This ratio sits 3.0 below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 89%. That tracks the 90% average for public schools in Bronx County.
PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING is graded B by allk12, scoring above 62% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 42.4% for PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING. The school posts 51.0%, 8.6 points above the prediction.
Bronx County census figures show that the median household income is $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of people live in poverty. There are 472 public schools in Bronx County, enrolling about 202,028 students in all.
The closest public school to PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING is PS 291, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING ranks 4th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has fallen by 90 students since 2020-21, to 372. The school's ratio fell from 11.6:1 to 9.8:1 between 2020-21 and 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 #10
- BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)High · 2,953 students
- RIVERDALE/KINGSBRIDGE ACADEMY (MS/HS 141)High · 1,383 students
- DEWITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,212 students
- PS 86 KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTSElementary · 1,091 students
- IN-TECH ACADEMY (MS/HS 368)High · 953 students
- PS 95 SHEILA MENCHERElementary · 851 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
- PS 2910.0 mi · 311
- PS 910.1 mi · 354
- IS 206 ANN MERSEREAU0.2 mi · 229
- BRILLA PAX CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 325
- BRILLA CARITAS CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 417
- KIPP FREEDOM CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 615
Frequently asked questions
About PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNINGHow large is PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING?
PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING enrolls approximately 372 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING serve?
PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING?
Approximately 9.8:1 students per teacher at PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING?
At PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING, the student body is approximately 90% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian.
Is PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING public or private?
PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.