PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING

PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING, a compact elementary campus in BRONX, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10, teaches 372 students, covering grades K through 8.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 40,459 students. PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). Beyond that, the school shows 8% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.0%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bronx County put median household income runs about $48,676, 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 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING is one.

PS 291 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING. On composite proficiency, PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.2%.

PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 15 INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 484 (now 372). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 86% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.